- Moravian Church, Herrnhut
Collection Description
The mission photographs of the Moravian Church (Evangelische Brüder-Unität) are part of the collection physically housed in the Unitätsarchiv, Herrnhut, Germany (previously German Democratic Republic). The Church was established in 1722 and was the first Protestant missionary society to send its agents to West and South Africa. Digitized photographs from this collection focus on two missionary fields in Africa: "Nyasa", in what is now southern Tanzania, and "South Africa West", the area north and east of Cape Town. The bulk of these photographs date from the period 1890-1940, with the peak lying in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Title:
Photographs of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany, ca.1890-1940
Alternate Title:
[short] Moravian Church, Herrnhut
Record ID:
impa-m76
Names & Dates
Created:
1890/1940
Publisher:
[host] University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject
Topic:
Missionary work , Indigenous populations , Missions
Coverage:
1890/1940
Place:
[countries] Tanzania
[countries] South Africa
[continents] Africa
Relationships
Part Of:
[collection] International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Physical
Type:
collections
images
Format:
ca. 1,000 photographs
photographs
Access
Rights:
Moravian Archives
Repository:
Moravian Archives
Unitätsarchiv, Zittauer Straße 24, 02747, Herrnhut, Deutschland
unitaetsarchiv@ebu.de
Ordering:
Contact Moravian Archives at http://www.archiv.ebu.de
Identifiers
Record ID:
impa-m76