Mystery Monday: on a mission
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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11:03am July 11 2022
Today’s mystery: where on campus can you find this hopeful sign?
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<> Yale Hope Mission 1929 Henry Killam Murphy, Architect -> CRWN305. Crown St. 305 <> Occupied by Yale School of Fine Arts YSA [founded 1869]. Also houses the Episcopal Church at Yale and The Yale Herald. <> Photo Mark Alden Branch, '86 YAM July 11, 2022. <<>> William Whiting "Bill" Borden (1887 – 1913) B.A. 1909. Princeton Theological Seminary 1912. was born to wealth. He founded the Yale Hope Mission while an undergraduate. Its headquarters at Crown St. 305 were built in 1929, 16 yrs after his death in Egypt due to meningitis while studying Arabic. His goal had been to evangelize the Uighur muslims in China's Gansu province.
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