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Title: View of village church, Sierra Leone, ca. 1905
Creator: Balmer, William Turnbull
Date Created and/or Issued: 1901/1920
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: Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "Church at Bandajama, Sierra Leone, Mendi-land". View of thatched church through village.
Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834. Rev. Balmer served in the Sierra Leone and Gambia district from 1901 to 1909 whn he transferred to the Gold Coast briefly until 1911. He resumed his work in Sierra Leone from 1914 to 1921.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 10.8 x 15.4 cm.
Identifier: impa-m2124 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-001-010
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2124
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-001-010.jpg
Subject: Religious buildings
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Balmer, William Turnbull, 1866-1928
Exterior views
Time Period: 1901/1920
Place: Africa
Sierra Leone
Source: SOAS/MMS/AFW/1195a/001/010 [File]
Relation: (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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