mortgages

There isn't really such a thing as a morgage in Tanzania. People start buildings and work on them as their finances allow. I think there is a distinct possibility that there are more incomplete houses in Tanzania than houses with roofs.

Someone told me that a presidential candidate went around to many of these such houses, marking them with a an "X", promising that if he got elected, each of these houses would be finished. I don't know who the candidate was, or even it's a true story, but the promise didn't come to fruition.

The above structure is on the corner, about 75 ft. from my house. We use it as a landmark when giving directions to our house, which has no address. We call it "the church without the roof", but we're really not sure what it was intended to be.There's a small courtyard in the back that looks to be intended as a sanctuary, where people let their goats graze.