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Isaiah Mloyiswa Mdliwamafa Shembe (c. 1865 [1] [2] – 2 May 1935), was a prophet and the founder of the Ibandla lamaNazaretha, South Africa, which was the largest African-initiated church in Africa during his lifetime. [3] Shembe started his religious career as an itinerant evangelist and faith healer in 1910.
Shembe congregation leaders. Female Shembe congregants. The Nazareth Baptist Church (Alternatively called "The Nazarite Church" "iBandla lamaNazaretha") is the second largest African initiated church based in South Africa, founded in 1910. [1] It reveres Shembe as a prophet sent by God to restore the teachings of Moses, the prophets, and Jesus ...
Shembe's Nazarite church was to become the largest Zionist congregation until eclipsed by the Zion Christian Church in the 1950s. Shembe's church was distinct from most other Zionist sects in that he insisted that he was a prophet sent directly from God to the Zulu nation. Most other Zionists were distinctly non-ethnic in outlook. [7]
Shembe may refer to: Isaiah Shembe; Nazareth Baptist Church; Shembe, Bururi, a village in Burundi; Shembe, Rutana, a village in Burundi; Lungelo Khumbulani Shibzin Jr ...
Denominations described as messianic include Kimbanguism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the Nazareth Baptist Church of Isaiah Shembe in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; the Zion Christian Church of Engenas Lekganyane with headquarters in Limpopo, South Africa; and the Ibandla Lenkosi Apostolic Church in Zion of South Africa and Swaziland.
INkosi Isaiah Shembe, who founded the sect in 1911, bought land in the Inanda area for his church and called the town eKuPhakameni (place of spiritual uplift). Shembe who died in 1935 is buried at eKuPhakameni and the grave is regarded as a shrine. Large festivals are held here in January, April, July and September every year.
The Story of Isaiah Shembe – History and Traditions Centered on EkuPhakameni and Mount Nhlangakazi: Volume One of the Sacred History and Traditions of the amaNazaretha, translated from the Zulu by Hans-Jürgen Becken, edited with G.C. Oosthuizen, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1996, pp. 258, ISBN 0773487735
While working on the Isaiah Shembe article, I found an encyclopedia article on Google Books that might provide more details for this article: The book is Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions, edited by Stephen D. Glazier. The specific article is "The amaNazaretha" by Irving Hexham, pp.34-37.