THE DISTRICT OF THE ARCHDIOCESE

Mushasha is the largest ecclesiastical hill in Burundi, the country's Catholic capital with its archdiocese installed since the 1950 s. Around the cathedral (asymmetric cut corners and isolated clocher), there is indeed a huge area of brick buildings devoted to religion.

There are women's congregations (carmelite, Bene Tereziya, Bene Bernadette, Bene Mariya) or men (Yozefu brothers), elementary and normal schools, a high school, a centre for people with disabilities… We can walk here without worry, in a peaceful atmosphere conducive to silence but not inanimate. Every year, small shops occupy reserved spaces, and residential houses have gradually reached the wall of the archdiocese.

On one of the tracks on the left before the cathedral's esplanade, you should not miss the stand of the Visitandines sisters who manufacture renowned dried cakes (every day from to, Sunday starting at PM).

After the cathedral's esplanade on its left, streets lead to hidden houses behind vegetable hedges. The workshop of sculptor Lazare Rurerekana is in one of them (+257 79 955 725, [email protected]).