Holy Ghost Mission (Bagamoyo)

At that time itself it was cosmopolitan town with its local ethnic groups and also people from Arabia, India, Muslim countries, Parsees, Goa and Europe.

[6][7] Soon thereafter, the first church was built in 1872, after establishing the mission, as a simple towered structure of French design but with local materials.

[3] In 1892, another large gift of land of 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres) was made to the mission by Sewa Haji, the Muslim philanthropist and a very rich trader (who traded in cloth, copper, gunpowder, ivory and rhino horn and who also owned and arranged caravans).

[7] A cemetery was also established about 100 metres (330 ft) away from the main mission building where early missionaries are buried.

The museum has many sentimentally touching exhibits of photographs of slaves tied together with chains to their necks, exhibits of the history of Missionary work and conversion to Christianity, books and booklets on prehistory of Bagamoyo, Indian and Arab door frames, and shackles, chains and whips used during slave trade, and many local wood crafts.

[3] 700 slave gathered to pay homage to him at the church before the "Mwili wa Daudi" - "the Body of David" was taken to England.

It is said that a young French Missionary, Madam Chevalier, who was running a dispensary in Zanzibar, had fastened a chain to the tree to tie her donkey, and eventually forgot about it.