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Title
Church of the Torch, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1935
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
after 1933
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
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
"Church of the Torch in darkness, Kenya". Exterior photograph of the Church of the Torch, Kikuyu in Kenya. The church was built between 1927 and 1933 and is based on Scottish architectural design.
This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Kikuyu Mission in Kenya, which was set up by Church of Scotland missionaries. Hospitals were established by Scottish missionaries in Kikuyu in 1908, in Tumutumu in 1909, and in Chogoria in 1922. The missionaries also introduced the Presbyterian Church to the area. The Kikuyu are Kenya's most populous ethnic group.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68788 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS7-058.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68788
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS7-058.jpg
Subject
Church buildings
Exterior views
Place
Africa
Kenya
after 1933
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS7/58 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Kenya Mission LS7
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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