Pastors from the First Baptist Roma Church in Bulgaria, the village of Golintsi, today the 'Mladenovo' Roma settlement, Lom. Extent: 1 photograph. Condition of original material: The top right corner of the photo is torn. Custodial history: The photo was provided to the owner. Author(s)/Crea...
Members of the First Roma Evangelical Baptist Society
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Visitors from the First Roma Baptist Church who were wearing special white dress in order to be baptised in water and to be included at the church society as full members. Extent: 1 photograph. Condition of original material: The photo has yellow spots. Custodial history: The parents of the o...
Visitors and members of the First Roma Baptist Church along with their pastors. Some of them are newly baptised members wearing white dress. Extent: 1 photograph. Condition of original material: The photo has yellow spots. Custodial history: The parents of the owner are in the photo, and it i...
The owner's mother is on the picture who were baptised in a baptisteruim by the Roma pastor from the First Roma Baptist Church. She wears white dress and headscarf that symbolised the 'break' with the previous way of life and commitment to the new Evangelical way of life. Extent: 1 photograph. ...
Children from the 'Mladenovo' Roma Lom settlement during Easter holiday. Their parents are members of the First Baptist Roma Church. The boys have Easter eggs in their pockets. Extent: 1 photograph. Condition of original material: The photo has yellow spots. Custodial history: The owner of th...
Youth from the 'Mladenovo' settlement in Lom wearing clothes according to the dress style imposed by the 'Vetil' Roma Pentecostal Church. According to the rules girls should wear long dresses and skirts and white headscarfs. The boys should wear shirts and trousers. Their parents are Baptists bu...
Photographs from Persida Asova' s collection. Collection presents the Baptist society in Montana before and in the first years after the fall of Communism. It presents the involvement of the local Gypsies in the Baptist Church as worshippers and preachers. Extent: 26 photographs. Condition of ...
Photographs from Persida Asova' s collection. Collection presents the Baptist society in Montana before and in the first years after the fall of Communism. It presents the involvement of the local Gypsies in the Baptist Church as worshippers and preachers. Extent: 26 photographs. Condition of ...
Portrait of Musti Adzhov, father of Persida. He was born in Ferdinand (today Montana) and was for a while, after the death of Baro Boev, pastor of the Baptist society in Montana, where Gypsy and Bulgarian Baptist followers gathered secretly in the Gypsy settlement during the Communist regime. Mu...
Non-Evangelical Gypsy wedding. Extent: 1 photograph. Condition of original material: The photo was some spots. Custodial history: The photo is owned by P. Asova. Author(s)/Creator(s): Unknown photographer.
