Faravohitra Memorial Church, Madagascar, ca. 1865-1885

"Faravòhitra Mem.l Church: former road". Anantanarivo. The church stands on a site where four Christian nobles were burnt in 1849. Construction of the church began in 1867 and it was opened in September 1870. The LMS commissioned Cameron to build the church in the hope that it would cost less than the Memorial churches designed and built by James Sibree, although the £2,850 raised by children in Great Britain was proved insufficient to cover the costs, which were met by the Society.; John Parrett served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885, first at the capital Tananarive [now Antananarivo] then, following a period of furlough in England from 1873 to 1875, at Amparibe. Parrett sailed to Madagascar in 1862 as part of a large missionary party comprising Dr and Mrs Andrew Davidson , Mr and Mrs Robert Toy, schoolmaster Charles Thomas Stagg and Mrs Stagg, Reverend John Duffus and Reverend William Edward Cousins. The party was sent to aid Reverend William Ellis who had pioneered the re-introduction of missionaries to Madagascar in 1862 on the accession of King Radama II to the throne, following the death of Queen Ranavalona I in 1861.