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History and ministry
Located in Nazareth (aka Adama)
Founded as a boarding school by Mennonite missionaries in 1959.
Closed by [Revolutionist] government order in 1982
Person who might have been a member of the choir:
- Alemu Checole (former student at Merha Ewourran School for the Blind; later teacher at the Bible Academy)
Q: Did some of the Bible Academy students also sing in the Nazareth Meserete Kristos Choir?
Songs in hymn books
The Bible Academic Choir was one of the four choirs known by name whose songs were included in the hymn book Kelïb inïzemïr.
Picture
Hege, p. 169:
Alemu Checole playing the piano at the Bible Academy
For further reading
Hege (1998), Beyond Our Prayers
See index, p. 270, s.v. “Bible Academy”