Mandala House home of the La Caverna Art Gallery and cafe. It is at the top of the hill on the other side of the river from downtown. The building is one of the oldest in Blantyre and beautiful, as are the spacious grounds. There's plenty of outside seating and a children's playground too. The cafe serves $6-8 lunches, various coffees, ice-cream, and cake. Hours are 8:30am to 4:15pm M-F, and Saturday morning. The gallery has some great carvings and pictures, and there's also a museum section upstairs, which is apparently open in the mornings.
St Michael and All Angels Church, PO Box 413, CCAP Blantyre Mission (off the old Chileka Road, up the hill from the clock tower roundabout, past the bus station and private hospital on your left and then next left), ☎ 0881 635 111, . Once described as the first permanent church between the Zambezi and the Nile this church was designed by a Scottish missionary helped by local workers. He, David Scott, had no architectural or building experience at all and had no written plans. This was just as well as The Church of Scotland would have stopped his plans had they known how ambitious they were. He was also writing a language dictionary at the time of building. This also is where Blantyre was founded when a local chief gave land to the Scottish missionaries and a slave freed by David Livingstone. �
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