Church of the Torch in Kiambu - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Presbyterian Church of East Africa.
The mission at Kikuyu was originally started around 1898 when Thomas Watson arrived in the area. Unfortunately, he died of pneumonia on 4th December 1901 and was replaced by Dr David Scott from Blantyre in Nyasaland, (now Malawi). However, work on the mission continued and the first church on the site, which was pre-fabricated in Scotland, became the Scott Watson Memorial Church. By the late 1920's that church was becoming too small and the present building, The Church of the Torch, was built between 1928 and 1933 close by.
Among those buried in the cemetery are eighteen European missionaries including Thomas Watson and David Clement Scott.
The church and cemetery are located off the C63 road which runs from Karen to Kikuyu town. The church is next to Kikuyu Eye Hospital which is signposted from the road.