Omandongo
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 Omandongo
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| Coordinates: 17°58′59.99″S 16°12′0″E / 17.9833306°S 16.20000°ECoordinates: 17°58′59.99″S 16°12′0″E / 17.9833306°S 16.20000°E | |
| Country | Namibia |
| Region | Oshikoto Region |
Omandongo is an unpopulated place in the Onayena Constituency in the Oshikoto Region in Northern Namibia, and the region which used to be called Ovamboland.
The Finnish Missionary Society began its missionary work in Omandongo in 1870. This was the first mission station for Finnish missionaries in the whole world. It was occupied by Finnish missionaries during 1870–88.
The first missionaries of the Finnish Missionary Society arrived in Omandongo on 9 July 1870 from Otjimbingwe in the Hereroland via Omaruru. Omandongo was part of the kingdom of the King Shikongo of Ondonga.
When the Finns arrived there, there was one structure at Omandongo, a house that had been built by Frederick Green, assistant to the merchant Andersson. It had been donated to Carl Hugo Hahn of the Rhenish Mission, and he in turn gave it to the Finns.
The Finns who arrived in Omandongo were the following:
Notes:
a Note: In official works of history the first term of these missionaries is given as having begun in 1868, because they arrived on 30 December that year in Cape Town and on to Stellenbosch on the same day.
b Piirainen acted during 1874–1910 as the FMS representative in Omaruru in Hereroland.
The Omandongo mission station had to be abandoned in late September or early October 1888, because of the despotic behaviour of Prince Nehale of Ondonga. His men murdered a South African merchant named William Jordan practically in the yard of the mission station. Nehale’s men also tried to “purchase” an ox cart from the Finns, apparently offering nothing as compensation. The Finns then fled to King Kambonde in Olukonda.
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