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Title
Christian congregation and missionaries, Usoke, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, ca.1898-1908
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
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Ussoke. Die Christengemeine und Missionare" ("Ussoke. The Christian congregation and missionaries"). African members of the congregation and two European missionaries and their wives and children.
The missionary on the left could be Brother Stern.--Stern, Rudolf Leupold(t),theologist, born June 15th, 1865 in Gorakhpur, East India, died March 12th, 1923 in Schönbruch, East Prussia. He married Hanna Binder in 1894 and the couple took up missionary work in Suriname that same year until 1897. From 1898-1908 Stern worked as a missionary in East Africa (1898 Urambo, 1899 Kiwere: foundation of a new mission station, 1906-08 Sikonge). In 1908 the couple returned to Germany.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
12 x 16.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m14628 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-1-02656
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14628
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-UNY-1-02656.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Christians
Clergy
Group portraits
Time Period
1898/1908
Place
Africa
Tanzania
Usoke
uncategorized: Unyamwezi
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
diapositive no 2656, f
impa-m76

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