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"Mapeera" is the Baganda rendition of "Mon Pere". He was the first Catholic Priest to set foot in Uganda in 1879. [3] Mapeera House serves as the headquarters of Centenary Bank, the third-largest bank in Uganda, and the largest indigenous commercial bank in the country, by assets. [4] The bank also maintains its main branch at this location.
Words of the Mapeera and Amansi monument Monument of Fr. Mapeera. The Fr. Mapeera and Brother Amansi monument in Entebbe, Uganda, was constructed by the Missionaries of Africa in the memory of Rev. Fr. Siméon Lourdel Marpel (aka Mapeera) and Brother Amansi, who were among the pioneer White Fathers who came to Uganda on 17 February 1879 and spread Christianity in Uganda.
St. John the Baptist, Mapeera-Nabulagala church with a capacity of 1000 members was constructed in Rubaga Division using the contributions from the White Fathers and Catholics in Uganda and diaspora at the same spot where Mapeera and Amansi built their first mission station. [1] It was consecrated by Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga on the 25th June ...
Statue of Fr. Pere Siméon Lourdel Marpel (aka Mapeera) at Mapeera Nabulagala Church. The late cardinal Nsubuga exhumed the remains of the five pioneer missionaries in Uganda from Bagamoyo and Rubaga cemeteries and kept them in a secret place until it was resolved by the Catholic church in Uganda to re-bury them. [19]
Seat of the Catholic church in Uganda Kampala More images. UG-C-022 Nabulagala Mapeera church Seat of the Anglican church in Uganda, a historic cave and historic buildings built by missionaries. The first cathedral was built in 1890–1894 of mud and wattle: Kampala More images. UG-C-023 Gadaffi Mosque
The building houses the national headquarters of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), one of Uganda's political parties. 7 Cham Towers — 16 1979 The building was formerly owned by Uganda Commercial Bank (UCB) and was known as UCB House. In the mid-2000s, UCB was acquired by Standard Bank of South Africa, and transformed into Stanbic Bank Uganda.
Kisubi Mapeera Secondary School is a secondary school in Kampala, Uganda. The school gets its name from a tent peg which the missionary, Père Simon Lourdel M.Afr. (known as Fr. Mapera) turned into a tree. "Mapeera" is the Baganda rendition of "Mon Pere". The school was founded in 1999 as a Catholic private school, owned by the Kampala ...
Centenary Bank Uganda Limited, a large commercial bank in Uganda; Centenary Technology Services Limited (Cente-Tech), an information and communications company, responsible for the ICT functions within the group. [14] Centenary Foundation, a non-government non-profit organisation, charged with promoting and executing the group's social programs.