Black and white photograph featuring the church at Itu colony in southeast Nigeria, a dedicated hospital and town for leprosy patients run by the Church of Scotland. The colony was founded in 1926 by Dr Andrew Buchanan MacDonald. The church is a single story building, and can be seen through a number of palm trees. The caption related to this image reads: "Church at Itu Leper Colony seats 2000!" This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, a facility run by the Methodist Missionary Society in modern Abia state, southeast Nigeria.
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