Elim Brass Band II
The brass band at Elim Moravian Church has been continually in action since 1838.
I visited Elim, Western Cape, on a morning when the thermometer was already breaking 30C at 10 a.m. and a large funeral was about to take place.
South Africa dot net says “Elim, with its whitewashed thatched cottages, Moravian church and the oldest working clock in South Africa, is a national treasure.”
Elim is a village on the Agulhas Plain in the Western Cape of South Africa. It was established in August 1824 by German missionaries as a Moravian mission station. When selecting the location, the missionaries placed a high priority on the proximity of water and on terrain that was suitable for planting vines so that wine for communion could be produced. In the Bible, Elim was the place the Israelites rested after crossing the Red Sea. It was a place of cooling waters and palm trees.
Elim’s Moravian church followed in 1835, built in the Cape Dutch style. The village’s brass band is almost as old, in continuous existence since 1838.
As well as preaching the Gospel, the missionaries taught the villagers a variety of trades and skills. Elim's thatchers continue to be renowned for their craftsmanship.
The village is picturesque and has changed little over the years. It is filled with whitewashed cottages, fruit trees and fynbos. All the roads in the village lead to the thatch-roofed church. The community, still mainly Moravian, consists of farmers, farm workers and artisans.
Elim is becoming known for the export of fynbos, and as an emerging area in the production of wine.
92% of the population of 1,412 people belong to the Cape Coloured community; 94% speak Afrikaans as their first language. Elim lies 37 km/23 miles east of Bredasdorp, the district centre, by road, and 48 km/30 miles north-west of Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point in Africa.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Elim Brass Band II
The brass band at Elim Moravian Church has been continually in action since 1838.
I visited Elim, Western Cape, on a morning when the thermometer was already breaking 30C at 10 a.m. and a large funeral was about to take place.
South Africa dot net says “Elim, with its whitewashed thatched cottages, Moravian church and the oldest working clock in South Africa, is a national treasure.”
Elim is a village on the Agulhas Plain in the Western Cape of South Africa. It was established in August 1824 by German missionaries as a Moravian mission station. When selecting the location, the missionaries placed a high priority on the proximity of water and on terrain that was suitable for planting vines so that wine for communion could be produced. In the Bible, Elim was the place the Israelites rested after crossing the Red Sea. It was a place of cooling waters and palm trees.
Elim’s Moravian church followed in 1835, built in the Cape Dutch style. The village’s brass band is almost as old, in continuous existence since 1838.
As well as preaching the Gospel, the missionaries taught the villagers a variety of trades and skills. Elim's thatchers continue to be renowned for their craftsmanship.
The village is picturesque and has changed little over the years. It is filled with whitewashed cottages, fruit trees and fynbos. All the roads in the village lead to the thatch-roofed church. The community, still mainly Moravian, consists of farmers, farm workers and artisans.
Elim is becoming known for the export of fynbos, and as an emerging area in the production of wine.
92% of the population of 1,412 people belong to the Cape Coloured community; 94% speak Afrikaans as their first language. Elim lies 37 km/23 miles east of Bredasdorp, the district centre, by road, and 48 km/30 miles north-west of Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point in Africa.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.