Black and white photograph showing the congregation at a morning Christmas service at the hospital run by the Methodist Missionary Society in Ama Achara, southeast Nigeria. Nigerian men, women and children stand in a large group with a single male European missionary. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Health services Hospitals Missionary work Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Religious gatherings Christmas Group portraits
Time Period
1930/1940
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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