About 5km south of Zanzibar Town, Mbweni was the site of a 19th-century UMCA mission station that was used as a settlement for freed slaves. In addition to the small and still functioning St John’s Anglican church, dating to the 1880s, you can see the ruins of the UMCA’s St Mary’s School for Girls, set amid lush gardens on the grounds of Mbweni Ruins Hotel.
