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Bodden Town Mission House, Grand Cayman
The Mission House is a historic house located in Bodden Town, Grand Cayman. The house rose to prominence in the 1800s and became known as the "Mission House" because of early missionaries, teachers and families who lived there while establishing a Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ... church and school in Bodden Town. Currently, the site is a tourist attraction with the house containing artifacts known to have been used by the Watler family. There is also a gift shop on site. References Buildings and structures in the Cayman Islands Museums in the Cayman Islands History of the Cayman Islands Grand Cayman {{CaymanIslands-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mission House
The Mission House at Kerikeri in New Zealand was completed in 1822 as part of the Kerikeri Mission Station by the Church Missionary Society, and is New Zealand's oldest surviving building. It is sometimes known as Kemp House. History Samuel Marsden established the Anglican mission to New Zealand with lay preachers who lived in the Bay of Islands under the protection of Hongi Hika, the chief of the local tribe, the Ngāpuhi. In November 1819, Marsden purchased 13,000 acres (53 km2) from the Ngāpuhi. Marsden instructed the Reverend John Butler to erect buildings for the mission station under the shelter of the Ngāpuhi pā (fortress) of Kororipo at Kerikeri (Marsden himself, Thomas Kendall and Hongi Hika left for Britain). Using Māori and skilled European labour, Butler had completed the centrepiece Mission House by 1822 (despite being interrupted by the return of Kendall and Hongi Hika with a thousand muskets, and Kororipo being used as a base for the subsequent Ngā ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
