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Kampala is home to the City Oilers, one of East Africa's top basketball club teams. It is the only East African team that competes in the FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup. The Oilers play their home games in the MTN Arena, which is based in Kampala's Lugogo Area. [59] The city hosted the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2017.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
The church was founded in 1984 in Kampala by Canadian missionaries Pastor Gary Skinner and his wife, Marylin. Initially, it operated out of Kampala's Imperial Hotel before the leadership took over a disused cinema which was renamed The Centre. [3] Today, Watoto occupies its own purpose-built campus in Kampala and earns £13.3 million a year. [4]
1908 - Uganda Museum founded. 1910 - Goan Institute established. [1] 1911 - Kampala Club founded. [1] 1913 - Indian Association formed. [1] 1915 - Port Bell-Kampala railway begins operating. [4] 1917 - Kampala Public Library established. [1] 1921 - Central Council of Indian Associations of Uganda headquartered in Kampala. [1] 1922 Technical ...
On 25 March 1953, all the Vicariate became dioceses. And also the Rubaga Archdiocese that consisted of the (Gulu, Masaka, Kampala, Mbarara and Tororo) dioceses was created. [28] In 1958, the Holy Cross Fathers started spreading Christianity in western Uganda. [28] Upper Nile Vicariate that was managed by the Mill Hill Missionaries. [28] [30]
The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
After the erection of vicariates in territories beyond the Nile on the southern side, the name of Northern Victoria Nyanza Vicariate became the Vicariate of Uganda on January 15, 1915. Vicariate of Kampala. On June 10, 1948, the name of Upper Nile Vicariate was changed to the Vicariate of Kampala which later became the diocese of Kampala in 1953.
Nsambya is located approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-southeast of the central business district of Kampala, along the Kampala–Ggaba Road. [3] The coordinates of Nsambya Hill are 0°17'57.0"N, 32°35'17.0"E (Latitude:0.299167; Latitude:32.588056). [4] Nsambya Hill rises 4,010 feet (1,222 m) above mean sea level. [5]