A monument to Dundee missionary Mary Slessor has been unveiled in Dundee.
The granite standing stone and plaque was revealed at a ceremony outside Steeple Church on the Nethergate by Deputy Provost Christine Roberts.
Mary worked in the city’s jute mills until 1876 when she became a Christian missionary in West Africa, where she helped promote women’s rights, education and saved pairs of twins.
In traditional West African religion, twins are seen as evil, as the devil is believed to be the father of one of the children.
Doug Binnie is the chairperson of the Mary Slessor Foundation which continues her mission in Akpap Okoyong in south east Nigeria.
He said: “The memorial marks 100 years since her death.
“The reasons for putting it here is that she was a member of the Wishart church, which through a series of amalgamations is now the Steeple church, as well as the intersection of the two churches in this area.
“I think by and large she hasn’t been remembered. Few people know about her story.
“It was a time when people had next to nothing, Mary herself grew up in a slum, effectively, and Dundee was deeply impoverished.
“She didn’t have an education, but decided to get one so she could do some good.
“The memorial is important because so many of our memorials are of men, men from a good Victoria background, and there are very few women, so we thought it would be a good idea.
“Our project was founded in her name to keep alive her legacy and deal with the issues still ongoing in the places she worked.
“The values of Mary Slessor are still valid, and inspire missionary and humanitarian work to this day.”