Stone cutting, Kikuyu, Kenya, ca.1908-1912

"Mission workers Kikuyu, dressing stones for church". Exterior view showing indigenous men sitting on the ground, cutting or dressing stone.The Kikuyu Mission had been founded on a temporary site by the Imperial British East Africa Company in 1891, before moving to Kikuyu territory in 1898, under the Rev. Thomas Watson. Located on the ‘lower shamba’, the site stands 12 miles from Nairobi, at a distance of approximately 342 miles away from the coast. The Church of Scotland assumed control of the Mission in 1901.