Nkamba
The home village of Simon Kimbangu in the Lower Congo, where he preached and prayed over the sick in 1921. Kimbanguists regard it as the place where their church was born.
Nkamba lies in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the country between Kinshasa and the sea. In 1921 Simon Kimbangu established himself there, in his own village, and the sick were brought to him from every direction (Lerrigo, The Prophet Movement in Congo, p. 272). A Kimbanguist account published in 2004 says that Kimbanguism was born at Nkamba on 6 April 1921 (Nduku-Fessau Badze, Le Kimbanguisme a quatre-vingt-trois ans, section 1.1). See Simon Kimbangu and the Kimbanguist Church.
What happened here
- 1921, firm dateSimon Kimbangu and the Kimbanguist Church
In 1921 Simon Kimbangu, a Baptist of the Lower Congo, begins to preach and to pray over the sick at Nkamba, and crowds come to him. A Belgian military court sentences him to death; reprieved, he dies in prison thirty years later, and a church grows from his followers.