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Title: View of church service, Madagascar, ca. 1890
Creator: possibly James Sharman
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1890
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: Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "Service in connection with the Congregational Union." View of pulpit and altar from the balcony of the church. Rev James Sibree stands at the lectern, just behind the organist. Other missionaries and indigenous clergy are gathered on the platform. The church is completely full, with members of the congregation standing in the aisles and doorways. Additional missionaries and their wives sit in a pew to the right.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 15.3 x 20.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-m375 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-019-011
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m375
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-13-10-019-011.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Religious practice
Clergy
London Missionary Society
Sharman, James, 1866-1954
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1890
Place: Africa
Madagascar
Source: SOAS/CWM/LMS/MA/PHOTO/01/019/011 [File]
Relation: Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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