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Attractions of interest tell the story of Bagamoyo’s colorful and at times turbulent past: of fishermen and farmers; of traders, explorers and travelers; of slaves, their captors and owners, and of the succeeding waves of colonialists that preceded the founding of the independent African nation of Tanzania in 1961. Caravan porters praised the town as Bwagamoyo— “to throw off melancholy", while slaves lamented it as Bagamoyo, Kiswahili for "crush down your heart".
A small fishing village on the Tanzanian coast some 47-km north along the coast from Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo first gained commercial prominence and its multi-cultural nature during the late 18th- and early 19th centuries. The Omani Arabs and Indian merchants established Bagamoyo as a trade center on Africa's east coast. The Germans subsequently made their presence felt, establishing it as their commercial center and the administrative capitol of German East Africa.
In addition to the Arab and German trading center for ivory, ebony, copra and other natural resources, Bagamoyo served as the mainland terminus for the lucrative and brutal slave trade. At its peak, an estimated 50,000 slaves per year were taken from the African interior to Bagamoyo for transshipment to the slave markets and spice and clove plantations of Zanzibar.
Numerous sites and buildings dating back to these periods remain, remnants of a troubled, yet rich, past, a history peopled by Africans, Arabs, Indians and Europeans.
Buildings in Bagamoyo’s Old Town with beautiful, handcarved wooden door frames of Arabian and Indian design-- such as that of the Old Bagamoyo Tea House-- offer glimpses of the town’s former splendour...and the relative luxury the traders’ were able to afford.
Remains of Bagamoyo’s past also include the Old Fort, the first stone structure built in the region. The fort was built by the Baluchi Indian A.S. Marhabi and was originally fortified by the Omani Arab Sultan Bargash. The Germans subsequently took control of it, using it to defend the East African coast during their tenure as 19th-century colonial rulers of German East Africa.
BAGAMOYO MISSIONARIES CHURCH
It was built in 1868 and considered to be the first church in East Coast of Africa . A cemetery, where the early missionaries were buried and a small shrine which was built by freed slaves in 1876 are all seen. "We are told that between 1934 and 1991, 35 Dutch priests worked here” The last of this long line of priests from the Netherlands was Father Frits Versteijnen who stayed in Bagamoyo for 30 years and started the first museum in the old Fathers’ House in March 1968.
The second Fathers’ House in Bagamoyo, constructed close to the Mother of all Churches in East Africa, has also fallen victim to the corrosive effects of the coast region’s relentlessly humid climate. Its ground floor was built in 1873, the first floor in 1877 and the second floor in 1903.
Kaole ruins, Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
Kaole was early known as pumbuji was early settlements in the east coast of Africa during 13th century. It grew because of the trade expansion and the interaction between foreign traders and local people. the monsoon winds facilitated sea travel between those two areas.
Many graves from 13th century remain, the ones with tower indicates popular people.
this was picture taken during visist missionary church bagamoyo show one of the ladear worked in the church.
this was picture taken during visit caravan was show one man a slave rotated chain.
this was picture taken during visit caravan ,it was show people a slave from interior came to bagamoyo for transhipment to zanzibar in market.
this was picture taken during visit caravan in bagamoyo ,it show a man tiptip and he was eganged activities of slave trade .
this was picture taken during caravan in bagamoyo show were a slave rotated chain
this was picture taken during visit caravan in bagamoyo show some materials of ivory for traship
this was German fort of prisoners.
this was picture taken during visit old street in bagamoyo .
this was german fort of the loof used for security.
this is one place of the beutifully beach in bagamoyo .
this was picture taken during visit kaole crocodile luch and one place attraction of visiters.
when were crocodile eaten meat and every one struggle in order to get piece of meat.
this was picture taken during visit kaole ruins bagamoyo when were visiters washed their hand from old well during grandfather and grandmother.
this was picture taken in kaole ruins bagamoyo it show old well dig the 12th century and people started use water from the well and now donot dry and is still coming as well as even the water balance level also not dry its water .
this is baobao tree that is a tree whose used grandfathers the village of pumbuji for around to icresed the age to live forever now that village is know as Kaole ruins.
this is picture of graveyard in 13th century also are grave of people died during the past event in kaole ruins bagamoyo.
this is one place in bagamoyo know as jangwani in kiswahili word that means desert also this place for production of salt in bagamoyo.
this was picture taken during visit jangwani palce to look how are their production salt in bagamoyo.
this is the way to go missionary church and good mangoes tree in way.
this is bagamoyo missionary church was built 1868 and the first church in east coast of africa.
this is missionary church in inside show some paints how were people activited and lived in bagamoyo
this is second father house closed to the mother all church in east africa and it was built 1877.
this is mother church in east africa.
this is baobao tree was planted 1868 has grown chevalier was for closed donkey.
this is baobao tree .
this was new paper used for german people and people learnt german of
language in 1911 and written by german lunguage.
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