Stained Glass Paintings in Church Architecture in Selected Churches in Southern Nigeria of the ecclesia in Africa pictorial turn, are history rite large. Their unique Nigerian Iconographic imageries knit historical and progressive Church art together with Christ as the anchor that holds that history. In a most fascinating way this overarching mechanism of evangelisation speaks the Goodnews in a language most at home to the people's of Nigeria; and points the way forward to the New evangelisation of all people's of the world.

P. Nelson Graves, Ph.D art history, teaches art history and criticism; drawing and print making at the Ignatius Ajuru university of education, Port Harcourt, rivers State, Nigeria. Interests : art history, historiography, critical theory, fro-centric research, post colonial literature & writing, photography, water color and travel.