Agiya Tree Monument

Badagry, Nigeria

The Agia Tree Monument Agiya Tree Monument is on the site once occupied by the Agia Tree (Egun: Asisoe Tin) close to the Badagry Town Hall. The Agiya tree was a 49 metres (160 ft) tree with a circumference of 9.1 metres (30 ft). Significantly remarkable for being the tree under which Christianity wa

s first preached in Nigeria by Thomas Birch Freeman and Henry Townsend on 24 September 1842, the tree lived for over 300 years until it was uprooted by a storm on 20 June 1959.

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Nearby

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Badagry palace · 0.3 km away
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Cathedral Church of St. Thomas Badagry. church · 0.7 km away
Badagry Heritage Museum musei · 0.8 km away