We got shown around the site of the old slave market where they built an Anglican church. Quite a disturbingly a large number of slaves were kept in a very confined space, chilling to think about their brutal journey through Africa to Zanzibar where they were traded by Arabs. The slave and ivory trade made Zanzibar enormously wealthy and accounts for the present crumbling yet opulent and impressive architecture in Stone Town.
It was unsettling to look around but I have to say I enjoyed the mixture of typically Arabian architectural features, carved wooden doors, domed windows within the church itself. I also liked the fact that the holy water was in half a clam shell at the entrance to the church.
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