Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Centre Aequatoria

    • Postal Address:

      B.P 276
      Mbandaka
      Congo, Democratic Republic of

    • Location:

      Stationsstraat 48 B-3360 Lovenjoel, Belgium

    • Telephone:

      32-0-16-46.44.84 (Belgium)

    • Facsimile:

      32-0-16-46-01-98 (Belgium)

    • E-mail:

      vinck.aequatoria@skynet.be

    • URL:

      http://www.aequatoria.be

    • Director:

      Honoré Vinck

    • Year founded:

      1937

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Ecclesiastical records
      Government records
      Grey literature
      Music
      Newspapers
      Oral histories
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Posters

    • Size:

      Library: around 15,000 volumes (including bound periodicals);Archives: 35 metres of archival boxes

    • Holdings:

      Archives: papers of Father Hulstaert, Edmond Boelaert, Trappist Fathers, Maurice de Ryck, Mgr. E. Van Goethem, Renier Van Egeren, provincial governmental and diocesean archives, MSC mission stations and schools, among many other documents of historical value.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      Lomongo, French, English, German, Dutch, Lingala, Spanish, Portuguese

  • Access Conditions

  • Repository publications:

    • Annales Aequatoria. 1980-

  • References:

    Nelson, Sam. "The Archives of the Missionnaires du S.Coeur."<I> History in Africa</I> 11(1984): 391-394.<p> Vinck, Honoré. "Les Archives Æquatoria." <I> Annales Æquatoria</I> (1980) Tome 2. <p> Vinck,Honoré. "'Le microfilmage des Archives Æquatoria." <I>History in Africa </I>20 (1993): 423-427. <p> Honoré Vinck, Presentations of different parts of the archives in <I>Annales Æquatoria</I> 5 (1984), p. 178; AA 6 (1985), p. 177-187; AA 7 (1986), p. 327-331; AA 7 (1986), p. 332-333; AA 9 (1988), p. 269-276; AA 9 (1988), p. 279-286; AA 9 (1988), p. 294-297; AA 10 (1989), p. 298-320; AA 10 (1989), p. 321-328; AA 12 (1991), p. 554-561; AA 14 (1993), p. 595-617; AA 17 (1996), p. 439-440. (Go to Tables of Contents of Annales Æquatoria)