Image / Interior view of Ambatovinaky Church, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1875

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Title: Interior view of Ambatovinaky Church, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ca.1875
Creator: Hildebrandt
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1875
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: 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/ .
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Description: "Det Indre af den norske Kirke i Antananarivo" ("Interior of the Norwegian Church in Antananarivo.")
Four people are standing in the front of the altar. The baptismal font is to the left. We also see many rows of wooden benches for the congregation to sit in. This picture was printed in "Norsk MissionsTidende" in 1877, page 245 as an engraving, xylograph.
The church was inaguarated in 1875. It was built by T. Rosaas and J. Engh.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints.28 x 24.8 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2438 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-frame-015
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2438
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-frame-015.jpg
Subject: Churches
Interior architecture
Norwegian Missionary Society
Altars
Pulpits
Baptismal fonts
Time Period: circa 1875
Place: Africa
Antananarivo
Madagascar
Source: NMS/Photo/frame/015 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
Photographs back to Madagascar
Photographs of the Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway, ca.1870-1950
impa-m559

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