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Engela
Engela is an Ovambo settlement in the Ohangwena Region (formerly in Oukwanyama), northern Namibia. It is one of the more important establishments of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN) in the area. It started as a mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society. Today, it is the centre of the Engela Constituency.
==History of the mission station==
Finnish missionaries first made visits to Oukwanyama in a place called Omafo where the English Major Fairlie had built a small church in 1918. The Finns travelled to Omafo from Ondonga via Oshigambo, which meant a journey of some 60 kilometres, taking 12 hours with an ox cart, no counting stops along the way.
By 1920, the church work in Oukwanyama involved 40 teachers and 1300 students, and it was getting difficult to administer the work from Ondonga. Thus it was decided to establish a mission station in this kingdom. Permission for this was obtained from the South West African government on 8 December 1920. The place for the mission station was determined by August Hänninen. He had been responsible for the church work in Oukwanyama while he still lived in Oshigambo. The new station was given the name Engela, and it was located ca. two kilometres from Omafo. Missionary Eetu Järvinen joined in the construction of the station, and in November 1920 the station was inaugurated. The following year, nurse Linda Helenius was sent to Engela to help Hänninen.〔Peltola 1958, p. 186, 188, 191, 196–198.〕
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