"Alt-Ileya. Die Christen dort haben eine neue Kirche gebaut und werfen Grasbündel auf dem [sic] Dach. Th. Tietzen." ("Old Ileya. The Christians there have built a new church and throw bundles of grass on to the roof. Th. Tietzen."). View of a building site with a rectangular building made of wood, straw and/or bamboo canes, partly already covered with mud, ca. ten African workers and some bundles of grass. Two men stand on the roof construction and receive the bundles of grass which are thrown on to the roof by the other men. Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
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2 copies, color side no. 8164 photographic prints, 11.3 x 8.3 cm. photographs
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