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Title: Church in Rungwe, Tanzania, 1938
Creator: Tietzen, Theodor, 1893-1973
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938-09
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
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description: "Die Kirche in Rungwe." ("The church in Rungwe."). The stone church has a thatched roof and a low bell tower. In front of it: an open space.
Cf. photo no. 10391. -- Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and after having served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi until 1929 and in Utengule until 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
Type: image
Format: 2 copies
photographic prints, 11.8 x 8.7 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m11807 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-11220
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m11807
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-11220.jpg
Subject: Buildings
Church
Exterior views
Time Period: 1938-09
Place: Africa
Rungwe
Tanzania
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 5
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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