Cyrene Mission

Matabeleland South · Zimbabwe

Cyrene Mission, Zimbabwe
Photo: Keizers, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Cyrene Mission near Bulawayo is an Anglican mission school celebrated for the school of religious mural painting that developed there in the mid-twentieth century. Under an influential missionary teacher, students produced vivid biblical scenes set in African landscapes across the walls and chapel of the mission, creating a distinctive body of work that gained international attention. The painted chapel remains the centrepiece, its interior covered in narrative frescoes by Zimbabwean artists.

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