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Title
Befandriana Church tower being built, Madagascar
Creator
unknown
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 tower being built. The church has a straw roof. Fridtjov Soeiland Birkeli was the founder of this church. He was a missionary in Madagascar from 1933-1945. He was born in Tulear, Madagascar on April 23, 1906. He is the son of Pastor Emil Birkeli. He married Borghild Sofie Sandbaek in Tananarive, Madagascar on April 16, 1942. She died in 1985.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 8.7 x 13.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m4105 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-2497-722
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4105
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-2497-722.jpg
Subject
Norwegian Missionary Society
Birkeli, Fridtjov Soeiland, 1906-1984
Religious buildings
Exterior views
Towers
Place
Africa
Madagascar
Source
NMS/Photo/Tvn2497/722 [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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