Agiya Tree Monument

The Agia Tree Monument Agiya Tree Monument is on the site once occupied by the Agia Tree (Egun: Asisoe Tin) close to the Badagry Town Hall.^[1] The Agiya tree was a 160 feet (49 m) tree with a circumference of 30 feet (9.1 m).^[2] Significantly remarkable for being the tree under which Christianity was first preached in Nigeria by Thomas Birch Freeman and Henry Townsend on 24 September 1842,^[3][4] the tree lived for over 300 years until it was uprooted by a storm on 20 June 1959.^[5]

The obelisk erected in place of the Agia Tree

Picture of the Agia Tree where Christianity was first proclaimed in Nigeria