Outside church service, Shigatini, Tanzania, ca.1927-1938

"Gottesdienst in Shigatini unter den Eukalypten" ("Church service in Shigatini under the eucalypti"). A crowd sitting in the shade of trees, some of them with umbrellas. An altar, chairs and a missionary. On the right side the church with its framework steeple.; Cf. photo no. 927, album no. 3. -- Wilhelm Guth (1888-1980), from Zeiskam in the Rhineland Palatinate, studied commerce before joining the Leipzig Mission as a pastor. He served in Gonja (southern Pare) from 1913 to 1917 and from 1927 to 1938. He left a large number of photographs, mostly taken by himself but including some by members of his family or fellow missionaries.