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Title
A church built by Africans, Utengule, Tanzania
Creator
Hauffe, Werner, 1909-1982
Date Created and/or Issued
before 1936-12
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
"Eine, ohne Wissen und Anleitung von Europäern, allein durch Eingeborene erbaute Kirche in Itimba b. Utengule." ("A church in Itimba near Utengule built only by Africans without the knowledge or instructions of Europeans.") A rectangular building with a thatched roof. People are passing by. On the right: a tree.
'Itimba' is probably today's Itumba. -- Werner Hauffe (1909-1982) was a carpenter and later a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. From 1933 to 1939, he served in Rungwe, Utengule and Isoko. In Utengule, he was an assistant to Brother Gemuseus. In 1937, he married Irmgard Wolff.
Type
image
Format
2 copies, colored slide no. 10611
photographic print, 8.9 x 6.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m4800 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10611
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4800
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-HRN-BOX-NYA-5-10611.jpg
Subject
Buildings
Construction engineering
Exterior views
Place
Africa
Tanzania
Utengule
before 1936-12
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Nyassa 5
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
impa-m76

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