Les premiers pasteurs d’Alger (1835-1853)
The first four ministers of Algiers—two French ministers and two naturalized Swiss ministers, but all four Reformed and of an evangelical bent—were true pioneers of Protestantism in Algeria. Within twenty years, they managed to assemble Protestant immigrants of different languages,…
“L’apôtre de l’Algérie” : le pasteur alsacien Jacques Timothée Dürr (1796-1876)
From the time Algiers was captured in 1830, Protestants settled there and founded a Reformed community. Established as a consistory in 1839 by King Louis-Philippe, the community became biconfessional following the establishment of a Lutheran oratory in Dely-Ibrahim. Its first…