GB 0102 MS 380453 - Shembe, Prophet Isaiah

3 volumes

GB 0102 MS 380453 c1932 Collection (fonds) 3 volumes Shembe , Isaiah , 1870-1935 , Zulu religious leader

The Nazareth Baptist Church was founded by Isaiah Shembe, the Zulu religious leader and healer, in Natal in 1910. The amaNazarites are the oldest African independent church in South Africa. For further information see A Vilakazi, Shembe: the revitalization of African Society (1986).

Presented by Dr Elizabeth Gunner in 1986.

Photocopies of three manuscript notebooks containing chronicles of the Nazareth Baptist Church, written c1932, ranging from accounts of miraculous events to the day to day life of the Church in Inanda, letters to dissident priests and accounts of church finances.

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No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Zulu

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds a file containing photocopies of correspondence of Londa N Shembe (Isaiah Shembe's son) with Professor Bengt Sundkler, 1975 (Ref: MS 249203), and a typescript of the Rev John Langaliba Dube's 'Shembe - a Biography', translated into English by M Yengwa, 1976 (Ref: MS 380082).

Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/books/shembe/s-index.html http://www.gospelcom.net/dacb/stories/southafrica/shembe_isiah.html Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. May 2002 Gauteng Inanda Nazareth Baptist Church , Inanda, South Africa Religion Religious experience Religious groups Religious institutions Religious leaders Religious movements Shembe , Isaiah , 1870-1935 , Zulu religious leader South Africa Southern Africa

Presented by Dr Elizabeth Gunner in 1986.

Photocopies of three manuscript notebooks containing chronicles of the Nazareth Baptist Church, written c1932, ranging from accounts of miraculous events to the day to day life of the Church in Inanda, letters to dissident priests and accounts of church finances.

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

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Zulu

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds a file containing photocopies of correspondence of Londa N Shembe (Isaiah Shembe's son) with Professor Bengt Sundkler, 1975 (Ref: MS 249203), and a typescript of the Rev John Langaliba Dube's 'Shembe - a Biography', translated into English by M Yengwa, 1976 (Ref: MS 380082).

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels