Black and white photograph of the opening ceremony for the Methodist Church at Ikot Ekpene, in Akwa-Ibom state, Nigeria, in December 1933. Reverend W Groves hands the key to the church to Lieutenant Governor of the Southern Provinces of Nigeria, Captain Walter Buchanan-Smith. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77790
- Date published
- 1928/1938
- Dates
- 1928/1938
- Format
- Black-and-white photographs
- Place Discussed
- Africa Awka-Ibom Ikot Ekpene Nigeria religious facilities
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Nigeria
- Reference
- IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-159.tif
- Rights
- Centre for the Study of World Christianity Contact the repository for details. The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/63dd8141e7663517e266919a488cec51
