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Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Bantu Bethlehem Christian Apostolic Church of SA (1). Sunday service. Senior women sit in order of seniority; senior men are on the other side of the table, with the rest of the congregation - mainly women and children filling the rest of the space.
Identifier: islandora:2433

Title: Rondebosch Congregational Church, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Congregational Church (Rondebosch) - In the porch of a pretty stone-and-brick church at Rondebosch, where Devil's Peak dominates the skyline, is the stone which once lay on the grave of Dr. Johannes van der Kemp - one of the pioneer missionaries who brought Congregationalism to South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:17276

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Baptism & healing. Congregations standing on the banks of a small river on the north-west outskirts of Soweto, beyond Naledi, where there were a series of pools suitable for the full immersion required for both baptism and healing.
Identifier: islandora:2117

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Bethesaid Healing Faith Mission (49). Sunday service. Drinking holy water.
Identifier: islandora:2326

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Holy United Methodist Church in SA (52). Members of church choir, at a Sunday morning service in a hired school class-room in Chiawelo, Soweto.
Identifier: islandora:2407

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Bishop A Malgas, leader of the African Free New Church (59) a breakaway from the Anglican Church.
Identifier: islandora:2458

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Bantu Bethlehem Christian Apostolic Church of SA (1). Mrs L Radebe outside her home, 202 Thongwe St, Central Western Jabavu . I had recently obtained the services of Archbishop Radebe to undertake a survey, and the Radebes had immediately invested the income on a security fence Рan indication of the lack of security in the neighbourhood.
Identifier: islandora:2382

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Apostolic Full Gospel Mission of South Africa (2). Bishop J E Magalemele at breakfast in his drycleaniing & tailoring shop, 870 Central Western Jabavu, Soweto.
Identifier: islandora:2443

Title: Dockyard Anglican Church, Simonstown, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Simon--s Town (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Where people pray: Dockyard Church. The Dockyard Church at Simonstown is truly a sailors' church. It occupies half of the top story of the stone mast-house built by the Dutch East Indian Company, and was first used for divine worship by the Anglican community about 1801 during the first occupation of the Cape. The Dockyard Church of St. George at Simonstown is half of the upper room, or sail loft, of the old Dutch East Indian Company's mast-house. The small clock-tower bears the date 1815. The clock is balanced by three weights one of which weights 400lb. It is checked daily and, in spite of its age, only occasionally loses a few minutes.
Identifier: islandora:17279

Title: Stubborn bride at a Shembe or Nazareth Baptist Church wedding
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Northern KwaZulu-Natal. Nompumelelo Mkhwanazi refuses to get out of her white wedding gown and into a beaded skirt and leopard skin collar before a traditional Zulu wedding in the Shembe or Nazareth Baptist Church wedding at the homestead of the groom. 1999.
Identifier: islandora:7292

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: St Francis Church (57). Mrs Nakeli praying over an elderly patient.
Identifier: islandora:2315

Title: Martin West Collection: African Independent Churches in Soweto
Description: Soweto scene: PUTCO buses convey mourners to a funeral, Saturday afternoon, near Mofolo North.
Identifier: islandora:2477

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