Misjonsmarka 12, NO-4024 Stavanger, Norway Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University USC does not control copyright for these images. For usage permission, contact Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University. Information is available at https://www.vid.no/en/historical-archive/ . post@vid.no
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Panoramic view of Bethel mission station. Page 1: "Habitation d'une infirmière et d'une directrice d'école" ("The nurses and teachers home"). This house was located right across "chateau Foss" with a drive-way in between. Page 2:"Habitation de missionaire directeur de la station. Oedelagt av cyklon og bygget opp paa ny. (?)" ("The home for the missionaries at the mission station. It was destroyed by a cyclone and then built up again. (?)"). It burned down ca. 1968-1969. It was later built up again in concrete. Kily is the Malagasy name of a tamarind tree which is visible on the picture. Page 3:To the left:"Habitation d'été du missionaire de Malaimbandy" ("Home for the missionaries in Malaimbandy"). To the right:"Habitation du directeur de l'ecole Biblique" ("The home for the director of the Bible School"). The house which was the missionaries home was at a later date used by the sisters that worked at the home for the leprous, Bekoaka.
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