Nieu-Bethesda
Nieu-Bethesda is a small Karoo village in the Eastern Cape, most well-known for the Owl House, and its artistic community.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 1,540 residents
- Description: town
- Also known as: “Kwa Noheleni”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Owl House.
The Owl House
Work of art
The Owl House is a museum in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The owner, Helen Martins, turned her house and the area around it into a visionary environment, elaborately decorated with ground glass and containing more than 300 concrete sculptures including owls, camels, peacocks, pyramids, and people.
Nieu-Bethesda
Latitude
-31.8651° or 31° 51′ 54″ southLongitude
24.5537° or 24° 33′ 13″ eastPopulation
1,540Elevation
1,322 metres (4,337 feet)Inception
1875Open location code
4GW64HM3+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 262721649OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Nieu-Bethesda” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nieu Bethesda”
- Afrikaans: “Nieu-Bethesda”
- Armenian: “Նյու Բետեսդա”
- Asturian: “Nieu-Bethesda”
- Dutch: “Nieu Bethesda”
- Dutch: “Nieu-Bethesda”
- Estonian: “Nieu-Bethesda”
- French: “Nieu-Bethesda”
- German: “New Bethesda”
- German: “Nieu-Bethesda”
- Pedi: “Nieu-Bethesda”
- Romanian: “Nieu Bethesda”
- Russian: “Нью-Бетесда”
- Southern Sotho: “Nieu-Bethesda”
- Zulu: “INieu-Bethesda”
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