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Title: The old Betania Church, but not the oldest, Morondava, Madagascar, ca.1886
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1886
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/ .
post@vid.no
Description: The church has a straw roof.Bethania was on a fragile sand island. The mission station had to be mowed due to the disappearing sand.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 10.3 x 14.4 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m4169 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-691-746
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4169
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-691-746.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Religious communities
Missionary work
Norwegian Missionary Society
Topographical views
Time Period: circa 1886
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Morondava
Source: NMS/Photo/Tvn691/746 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
Photographs of the Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway, ca.1870-1950
Photographs selected for Professor Dina Jeanne
impa-m559

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