cover image: View of Wesley church, Cape Coast, Ghana, 1926

View of Wesley church, Cape Coast, Ghana, 1926

1926

"Wesley Church - Cape Coast". View of town showing church. One of a set of mounted prints of West Africa by F.D. Walker, editor of the Methodist Missionary Society's journals, The Foreign Field, 1914-1932, and it's successor The Kingdom Overseas 1933-1945. He published 18 books and numerous pamphlets, including biographies of Thomas Birch Freeman and William Carey. He travelled to the mission fields extensively, visiting West Africa in 1926. Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834.
religious buildings wesleyan methodist missionary society exterior views walker, frank deaville, 1878-1945

Authors

Walker, Frank Deaville

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2150
Dates
1926
Format
Photographs
Pages
gelatin silver prints, 12.1 x 16.6 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Ghana
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Ghana
Reference
impa-m2150 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-010-003
Rights
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library docenquiry@soas.ac.uk http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/b20eec3cb41216e6b9d65a987bcccb03