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In 1981, two small congregations were created in Kenya (Nairobi and Kiboko). In 2022, there were 17,438 members in 57 congregations. [ 4 ] On April 2, 2017, church president Thomas S. Monson announced that a temple would be built in Nairobi.
Before the construction of The Government House in Nairobi, the first governor's residence was at Government House, Mombasa, constructed in 1879.The Government House in Nairobi, now referred to as State House, was built in 1907 in Nairobi to serve as the official residence of the governor of British East Africa, when Kenya was a colony within the British Empire.
Kenya Times briefly overtook The Standard as the second most popular newspaper in Kenya (after Daily Nation), but its popularity waned after 1992's general elections, the first multi-party elections in Kenya since the abolition of one-party-system. [1] Kenya Times stopped publication in early June 2010 due to financial problems. [2]
Daystar University is a private Christian liberal arts university in Nairobi. [1] [2] Daystar's original campus is close to Nairobi city centre, but there was no room to expand at that location. Therefore, in 1992 a new campus was built at Athi River, some 40 km to the south-east of the city, 5km off Mombasa Road which became the main campus.
Ngara is a commercial and residential suburb of Nairobi. Located within the larger Starehe Sub-county, it is approximately 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi) northeast of Nairobi's central business district along Muranga Road.
He established Kenya's first newspaper now known as The Standard in 1901 and was the first non-white to be elected to the Legislative Council in 1910. Such was his success that in 1904 it was estimated that he owned half of Mombasa and the greater part of Nairobi. [14]
The following is a list of prominent companies and organizations with their main headquarters in Nairobi: East African Breweries; Equity Group Holdings Limited; Gulf African Bank; KCB Group Limited; Kenya Airports Authority; Kenya Airways; Kenya Commercial Bank Group; Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) Mumias Sugar Company; Nation ...
Eastleigh was founded in 1921. At this time, it was formally called Nairobi East Township. While the colonial government originally tried to segregate citizens by race and ethnicity, failures at doing so in the Eastleigh neighbourhood more or less stopped the practice under colonial rule, so class became the general segregating factor afterwards. [4]