This is the 2nd chapel built in South Africa by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its within blocks of downtown Johannesburg and is considered to be in a dangerous part of town.
As a young missionary, I attended this building on a number of occasions. We called it the Ramah building then and it housed one branch. Today, there are two wards meeting in this building. Mom and I attended church here this past Sunday. Just coming onto the chapel grounds brought tears to my eyes. Hard to believe it has been 47 years.
Inside of the chapel.
Members of the Johannesburg 1st Ward.
Hi Sister Shupe, This Johannesburg chapel is the fourth chapel built in South Africa by the LDS church.
ReplyDeleteThe Johannesburg chapel in 395 Commissioner street, Fairview Johannesburg was the first chapel built by the members of the church (1925) - no longer standing, the second chapel was the Cape Town Mowbray chapel (1937), the third chapel was Springs chapel (1954), then this Johannesburg chapel (1958), with Durban and Port Elizabeth chapels also 1958.
As a young boy in 1956 and 1957, I attended the old chapel in Fairview, before it moved to the current chapel.
Thank you for your blog, it is very interesting and well done - Steve Hamilton