Agiya Tree Monument

The Agia Tree Monument Agiya Tree Monument is on the site once occupied by the Agia Tree (Egun: Asisoe Tin) close to the Badagry Town Hall.

[1] The Agiya tree was a 160 feet (49 m) tree with a circumference of 30 feet (9.1 m).

[2] Significantly remarkable for being the tree under which Christianity was first preached in Nigeria by Thomas Birch Freeman and Henry Townsend on 24 September 1842,[3][4] the tree lived for over 300 years until it was uprooted by a storm on 20 June 1959.

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