Harris's mass baptisms on the Ivory Coast

Between 1913 and 1915, Prophet Harris walked along the coast of the French Ivory Coast and the Gold Coast, baptising perhaps 100,000 or more people who burned their shrine objects.

1913 CE · 5.21, -3.74 · status: account

The account

Witnesses described healings and the destruction of shrines; French officials, alarmed, deported him in 1915. The Harrist Church remains an important Ivorian church. The plotted point is Grand-Bassam.

Connections in the atlas

• Prophet Harris's vision in Harper jail

Sources

1. Wikipedia: William Wadé Harris