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Title
Church in Betsileo, Madagascar
Creator
Chazel, André, 1872-1938
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1920
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
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/index.php?id=266
http://www.defap.fr/contact.php
Description
Church of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Betsileo. Church built with green bamboos, which are flat and plaited on a wooden frame. This modest building is used to pray on sunday and to help children to learn how to read. This Church is on the edge of a forest in the Betsileo which a poor and isolated region in Madagascar.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 7.9x9.4 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m74996 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_MGPP009-01287_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m74996
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_MGPP009-01287_2.jpg
Subject
Religious buildings
Indigenous populations
Christians
Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, SMEP (Paris evangelical missionary society)
Time Period
1900/1920
Place
Madagascar
Source
SMEP/MG.P.009-01287 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Madagascar Archives Eglise / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
impa-m62959

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