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Title
Building of a church, Old Ileya, Tanzania, ca.1927-1939
Creator
Tietzen, Theodor, 1893-1973
Date Created and/or Issued
1927/1939
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
Contact: Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Moravian Archives
Moravian Archives; http://www.archiv.ebu.de/
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"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.
Type
image
Format
2 copies, color side no. 8164
photographic prints, 11.3 x 8.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m8679 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08164
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8679
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-3-08164.jpg
Subject
Churches
Manual workers
Building operations
Construction engineering
General views
Time Period
1927/1939
Place
Africa
Nyasa
Old Ileya
Tanzania
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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