Part 1 - Fr. James Kelly's Church, Cape Flats

Black and white print

An image titled 'Fr. Kelly’s Church in the heart of the Flats'. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Typical flat country with occasional roads thro it. But he [Fr. Kelly] has very few residents in such a place. He is very old now and I expect we shall be asked to take it later. He has his own house and four mission churches attached – all built by his own parishioners’ hands’.

Fr. James Kelly (1858-1933) was a Waterford-born Catholic priest and was the founding editor of 'The Southern Cross' newspaper in 1920. For biographical information on Fr. James Kelly see https://www.scross.co.za/2021/12/the-first-editor-of-the-southern-cross/