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Title
Opening of the new school, Baziya, South Africa East
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, Unitätsarchiv
Moravian Archives, Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Germany
http://www.archiv.ebu.de
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Description
"Baziya. Utabeliza. Die Männer erwarten den Häuptling zur Eröffnung der neuen Schule. Der eingeborene Geistliche Silinga redet zu ihnen" ("Baziya. Utabeliza. The men are waiting for the chief for the opening of the new school. The indigenous clergyman Silinga is talking to them"). A group of people sitting on the ground in front of a house. Some of them are standing. Most of them are wrapped in blankets.
Johnson W. Silinga, born in Baziya (South Africa East) in 1893, was an indigenous brother of the Moravian Church. He was a mission assistant from 1927 onwards.--Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints
4.8 x 8.8 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m15469 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-09921
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15469
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-7-09921.jpg
Subject
Schools
Leadership
Clergy
General views
Place
Africa
Baziya
South Africa
Unknown
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
four copies exist
impa-m76

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