Church building, Ipanya, Tanzania, ca. 1903-1916

"Die von der Gemeine in Ipyana unter Br. Böhme errichtete Kirche." ("The church that Br[other] Böhme had had built by the congregation in Ipanya.") View of a Neo-Romanesque church surrounded by grass and bushes. Four people are sitting or standing on the stairs at the front entrance. Cf. photo no. 3678. -- Included from the box of duplicates. -- Ernst Emil Böhme (1870-1938) was a mission artisan of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served from 1900 to 1903 as head of the joinery, as building foreman from 1903 to 1905 in Kyimbila, from 1905 to 1907 in Isoko and from 1907 to 1909 in Rutenganio. Until being interned in 1916 he was head of the station in Ipanya. In 1907 he married Emma, née Gründel.