Tolstoy Farm
Tolstoy Farm was an ashram initiated and organised by Mohandas Gandhi during his South African movement. At its creation in 1910 the ashram served as the headquarters of the campaign of satyagraha against discrimination against Indians in Transvaal, where it was located.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: first ashram initiated and organized by Mohandas Gandhi
- Also known as: “Ghandi Tolstoy Farm”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lenasia South and Lenasia.
Lenasia
Town
Photo: WaseemLT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lenasia, also known as Lenz, is a suburb south of Soweto in the Gauteng province, South Africa, originally created to house Indians. It is located in Region G of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Lenasia is situated 5 km north of Tolstoy Farm.
Ennerdale
Town
Ennerdale is a town in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa. Ennerdale was declared as a coloured group area under the apartheid regime. Ennerdale is situated 6 km southeast of Tolstoy Farm.
Tolstoy Farm
- Categories: ashram, building complex, and tourism
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.3641° or 26° 21′ 51″ southLongitude
27.81612° or 27° 48′ 58″ eastOpen location code
5G59JRP8+9COpenStreetMap ID
way 326153359OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q96410042
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Tolstoy Farm” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tolstoi Plaas”
- Arabic: “مزرعة تولستوي”
- Assamese: “টলষ্টয় ফাৰ্ম”
- Gujarati: “ટૉલ્સટૉય ફાર્મ”
- Igbo: “Ugbo Tolstoy”
- Malayalam: “ടോൾസ്റ്റോയ് ഫാം”
- Panjabi: “ਟਾਲਸਟਾਏ ਫਾਰਮ”
- Panjabi: “ਤਾਲਸਤਾਏ ਫ਼ਾਰਮ”
- Slovenian: “Tolstojeva kmetija”
- Tamil: “டால்ஸ்டாய் பண்ணை”
- Telugu: “టాల్స్టాయ్ ఫామ్”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹالسٹائی فارم”
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