Umanak (mission)

Umanak
Uummannaq
The Herrnhut mission station Uummannaq at the bay of Nuuk (c.1900)
Location of Umanak mission in Greenland
LocationNortheast from Nuuk, Greenland
RegionGreenland
Coordinates64°29′27.96″N 50°47′55.68″W / 64.4911000°N 50.7988000°W / 64.4911000; -50.7988000

Umanak (Kalaallisut: Uummannaq, "Heart-shaped") was a former Moravian mission in mid-western Greenland, located upfjord from Neu-Herrnhut (modern Nuuk).

It was founded in 1861 and surrendered to the Lutheran Church of Denmark in 1900.

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