{"id":19387,"date":"2025-07-04T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/?p=19387"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:50:10","slug":"diakonissorna-i-thanjavur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/2025\/diakonissorna-i-thanjavur\/","title":{"rendered":"Diakonissorna i Thanjavur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>En av de platser jag var p\u00e5 i januari n\u00e4r jag reste i Indien i tv\u00e5 veckor var <strong>Thanjavur <\/strong>i <strong>Tamil Nadu<\/strong>. Det \u00e4r en ganska stor stad med svenska m\u00e5tt m\u00e4tt, och naturligtvis en ganska liten stad med indiska m\u00e5tt m\u00e4tt, och en viktig stad eftersom den rymmer ett k\u00e4nt och mycket gammalt tempel, och en viktig stad f\u00f6r den lutherska kyrkan i Tamil Nadu eftersom det var d\u00e4r <strong>Lydia Home<\/strong> byggdes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Den grupp som jag reste med gjorde bara ett kort bes\u00f6k d\u00e4r &#8212; skolan, kyrkan, Lydia Home &#8212; och jag har f\u00e5tt arbeta ganska mycket efter\u00e5t f\u00f6r att g\u00f6ra ett reportage av det vi s\u00e5g. Men jag har haft helt osannolik tur tv\u00e5 g\u00e5nger: n\u00e4r jag var i <strong>Stockholm <\/strong>p\u00e5 ett kalas i v\u00e5ras tr\u00e4ffade jag <strong>Elisabeth <\/strong>som vet mycket om <strong>Ersta <\/strong>och som kopplade ihop mig med <strong>Silva<\/strong>, <strong>Monica <\/strong>och <strong>Jemima <\/strong>&#8212; de \u00e4r diakoner allihop, och s\u00e4rskilt Silva har arbetat mycket med diakonihistoria. Och n\u00e4r jag var i <strong>Torestorp <\/strong>f\u00f6r att f\u00f6rel\u00e4sa tr\u00e4ffade jag <strong>Birgitta <\/strong>som var en av Svenska Kyrkans Missions sista mission\u00e4rer i Tamil Nadu och som kunde ber\u00e4tta mycket f\u00f6r mig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/DSC_0175-liten.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/DSC_0175-liten.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/DSC_0175-liten-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>De gav mig m\u00e5nga ledtr\u00e5dar, och Silva letade ocks\u00e5 i gamla nummer av Erstas tidning Olivebladet och i ett slags \u00e5rsbok och hittade n\u00e5gra artiklar som Erstasystrarna hade skrivit medan arbetet i Tamil Nadu och i Thanjavur var under uppbyggnad. Jag hittade ett par vetenskapliga uppsatser som egentligen inte handlade om arbetet i Thanjavur men som inneh\u00f6ll en del information &#8212; en av dem var i arkivvetenskap och handlade om arkiv som tidigare mission\u00e4rer hade l\u00e4mnat in till Kyrkokansliet i Uppsala. Hos Svenskt Portr\u00e4ttarkiv hittade jag syster Greta och syster Tullia och n\u00e5gra av de andra svenskarna, och Satheesh som \u00e4r kommunikat\u00f6r i Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church letade efter bilder av syster Lydia, den f\u00f6rsta indiska diakonissan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Det h\u00e4r reportaget tog m\u00f6jligen oproportionerligt mycket tid att f\u00f6rbereda och att skriva, men det har varit s\u00e5 fascinerande att se mer och mer hur m\u00e4nniskor och h\u00e4ndelser h\u00f6r ihop. <a href=\"https:\/\/uppdragmission.se\/reportage\/med-spanande-oga\/\">Nu finns det h\u00e4r!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En av de platser jag var p\u00e5 i januari n\u00e4r jag reste i Indien i tv\u00e5 veckor var Thanjavur i Tamil Nadu. Det \u00e4r en ganska stor stad med svenska m\u00e5tt m\u00e4tt, och naturligtvis en ganska liten stad med indiska m\u00e5tt m\u00e4tt, och en viktig stad eftersom den rymmer ett k\u00e4nt och mycket gammalt tempel,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,1450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lastips","category-resor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19390,"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions\/19390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggar.hemmetsjournal.se\/anna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}