Experts' Choice Award Anglican Zanzibar Diocese
What the experts agree on
Zanzibar's first East African Anglican cathedral, built in the 1870s by UMCA, confronts visitors with its harrowing slave trade history through underground chambers while honoring explorer David Livingstone with a crucifix carved from a sacred tree.
Lonely Planet "Constructed in the 1870s by the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), this was the first Anglican cathedral in East Africa." Full review
Fodor's "This was the first Anglican cathedral in East Africa and its crucifix was carved from the tree under which explorer David Livingstone's heart was buried in the village of Chitambo." Full review
Afar Magazine "Its history is undeniably dark...visiting the dim and suffocating underground chambers to see where human beings were bound and held in chains is chilling." Full review
