Daily Archives May 20, 2013

Four tall coconut trees loaded with coconuts provided the backdrop to the hilly terrain on which Carmel Moravian Church, Westmoreland, Jamaica West Indies, boasting its German Gothic Architecture and buttresses punctuated with Greco-Roman Arched Stained Glass Windows and Wooden Doors made of hardwood that is termite free and has lasted for many years, stood as mourners from far and near, began filing into the sanctuary as early as 7.45 a.m. so as to ensure that they got the best seats.

Not to be out done were vendors in the church yard and also on the  Carmel Primary School grounds who staked out the best spots to peddle their wares...

Miss “Ellie”

Standing in close proximity to Kilmarnock School epitome of the work done by early Moravian Missionaries in educating ancestral slaves who were snatched from their habitat on the West Coat of Africa and taken in shackles to Jamaica where they were sold to slave owners and masters in Paynes Town, Hopeton and other white dominated plantacrocy; Kilmarnock Moravian Church with its four buttresses, a white painted corrugated steel gate is the entrance to the church cemetery where the remains of John Monteith and his son the late Rev. Noel Keith Monteith, O.J., J.P...