Umanak (mission)
Umanak
Location within Greenland
_Greenland._The_Herrnhut_mission_station_Uummannaq_at_the_bay_of_Nuuk_(11727305740).jpg)
The Herrnhut mission station Uummannaq at the bay of Nuuk (c.1900)
Umanak (Kalaallisut: Uummannaq, "Heart-shaped") was a former Moravian mission in mid-western Greenland, located upfjord from Neu-Herrnhut (modern Nuuk).[1]
It was founded in 1861 and surrendered to the Lutheran Church of Denmark in 1900.[2][3]
See also
- Uummannaq, the unrelated present settlement also sometimes spelt Umanak
References
- ↑ Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Vol. 4. Smithsonian Institution, reprinted by Digital Scanning Inc, 2003.
- ↑ Lüdecke, Cornelia. "East Meets West: Meteorological observations of the Moravians in Greenland and Labrador since the 18th century". History of Meteorology 2, 2005.
- ↑ Wittman, P. "Greenland". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Co. (New York), 1909. Accessed 28 Apr 2012.
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