Image / Prenshon Kharlukhi at his Wedding, Shillong, Assam, India, 1939

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Title: Prenshon Kharlukhi at his Wedding, Shillong, Assam, India, 1939
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Abilene Christian University. Brown Library. Milliken Special Collections
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Special Collections and Archives, Brown Library, Abilene Christian University, Box 29208, Abilene, TX 79699-9208; 325-674-2348
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Description: "Mr. and Mrs. P. Kharlukhi in memory of the wedding ceremony on the 30th December 1939. Presented to Mr. Glenn L. Wallace. (Turban or head dress is part of our national dress. Special importance is attached to this dress in wedding or their national functions. This was the first and the only time I wore this head dress.) Prenshon Kharlukhi, Shillong, Assam, preacher of the gospel." Prenshon Kharlukhi was the first preacher, indigenous or foreign, in Northeastern India associated with Churches of Christ. From 1939 to 1959 he planted 11 congregations in Northern India with a total membership of 250.
Type: image
Format: photographic print, 15.5 x 11 cm.
photographs
Identifier: IMPA-ACU-WCVF-54000-A-001.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-91660
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMPA-ACU-WCVF-54000-A-001.jpg
Subject: Missionaries
Religious practice
Group portraits
Time Period: 1939
Place: Asia
Assam
India
Shillong
Source: ACU/WCVF/54000/A/001 [File]
Relation: Abilene Christian University. Brown Library. Milliken Special Collections
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, 1899-1969
World Churches Vertical Files, Center for Restoration Studies

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