„Eine christliche Hochzeit (Elias Mzuku)“ („A Christian wedding (Elias Mzuku)“). Group portrait of twenty people standing. A bridal couple is standing in the middle. The bride is wearing a white wedding dress, a veil, adornments in her hair, a necklace and white gloves, holding flowers in her left hand. Left to her the bridegroom, wearing a dark suit, a hat and glasses. Next to him other men in suits and two women, one in a dark dress, the other one in a light coloured dress. Right to the bride several young girls, wearing light coloured short skirts and blouses. Some of them are holding flowers, others are holding books in their hands. In the background trees and hills. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.--Elias Mzuku, coming from Tembuland, was an Evangelist in Xentu (South Africa).
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