Agia Tree Memorial- Badagry

The Agia Tree Monument or 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 September 24, 1842,[3][4] the tree lived for over 300 years until it was uprooted by a storm on June 20, 1959. In place of the tree, an obelisk was erected in 2012 in celebration of 170 years of Christianity in Nigeria.