Stone church with shingled roof, Sierra Leone, ca. 1920-1940

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Title: Stone church with shingled roof, Sierra Leone, ca. 1920-1940
Published / Created: 1920-1940
Publication Place: Sierra Leone, Africa
Description: 4. Regent Church - The first stone church built in the colony - Sierra Leone. A white-painted stone church is shown on a hillside, the roof shingled and peaked.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting on it. Printed in the margin of the correspondence section is "The Regent Church is built alongside the old Walled Enclosure or King's Yard where some of the early liberated slave settlers were accommodated when first brought to the Colony."

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: Missionary Postcard Collection
Collection/Other Creator: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Collection Date: 1880-1950
Container / Volume: Box 17

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