Christian bridal couple, Gonja, Tanzania, ca.1927-1938

"Christliches Lehrerpaar am Hochzeitstage" ("Christian teachers' couple on the wedding day"). In front of the Gonja church. The couple dressed in white European clothes. The bride wearing a garland and the bridegroom a hat.; 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.