Sacred Healing Circle | African Traditional Spiritual Coalition

African Traditional Spiritual Coalition

WHAT WE DO

African Traditional Culture/Spirituality dedicated to preserving the culture as well as to provide healing and collective prayers for the elevation of the larger African community, nation, and all humankind.

OUR EVENTS

The Sacred Healing Circle and Conference brings the spiritual/religious community together for united prayer and spiritually elevating activities designed to bring about individual, family and community healing, fortification, empowerment, and enlightenment.

SPIRITUAL PATHS

Akan

Ausarian/Kamitic

Sangoma
Vodou/Vodoun

Yoruba

GET INVOLVED

The best way to learn more about African Traditional Spiritual Culture (ATSC) and/or becoming a member of a Shrine House is to attend their events, workshops, and/or classes.

Spiritual Pioneers of Bringing Each African Traditional Spiritual Path to African-American Communities

(Click each image to learn more)

Okomfohene Akua Oparebea

Nana Akua Oparabea, Okomfohemma (chief priestess) of the Akonnedi Shrine in Larteh-Kubease, Ghana, West Africa. The late Nana Okomfohemma Oparebea established many Akan shrines throughout America and Canada. In 1965, during a solo trip, Nana Dinizulu was introduced to Nana Akua Oparabea. In 1971, Nana Oparebea accepted Nana Dinizulu’s invitation to travel to America. It was the first time that a Guan priest of such stature had traveled to this country voluntarily. During the visit Nana Oparebea lived with the family of Nana Dinizulu and helped him with the work of the shrines of Nana Asuo Gyebi and Nana Esi that he brought to American in 1965. In addition, she established the Tegare shrines in New York under the care of Nana Dinizulu and taught him how to train Akomfo to serve the deities according to the Larteh system.

Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu

In 1965, the late Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu I, whose research had revealed to him that his ancestors came from Ghana, traveled to the Akonedi Shrine in Ghana for an oracular consultation, which was done by Okomfohemmaa Nana Akua Oparebea's mother. Nana Dinizulu was directed to his ancestral home through divination. He was initiated and upon his return brought to the USA, Nana Asuo Gyebi, Esi Ketewaa and Adade Kofi shrines. In 1967, he established the traditional African religious and cultural organization, Bosum Dzemawodzi in New York.

Supreme Serviteur Ati Max G. Beauvoir

Max G. Beauvoir was enstooled as the Chief and Supreme Servitor of the religion of Haiti in 2007 and was the head priest of over 2,500 priest and priestesses worldwide. The late Mr. Beauvoir was the founder of the Peristyle de Mariani in Haiti and the Temple of Yehwe in Washington D.C. Both of these institutions are dedicated to the understanding of the culture, history, religion and traditions of Haiti and Africa.

Chief Iya N’Ifa Ifarinoola Efunyale

Yoruba Temple of Spiritual Elevation & Enlightenment, also known as the Yoruba Temple, was founded in Washington, DC in 1982 by the late Chief Iya N’Ifa Ifarinoola Efunyale (Mother) Taylor. Mother Taylor grew up in Trinidad, West Indies. Her parents and family were Yoruba practitioners who followed the traditional African practice of Orisa. She received her calling at a very young age and was initiated into Orisa at the age of five.

Oba Oseijeman Adefunmi

In 1959, Oba Adefunmi travelled to the Matanzas region of Cuba to be initiated into the priesthood of Obatala. Upon his return to the U.S. he founded Order of the Damballah Hwedo, then the Shango Temple, and later incorporated the African Theological Archministry. That organization would come to be called the Yoruba Temple. In the fall of 1970, he founded the Yoruba Village of Oyotunji in Beaufort County South Carolina, and began the careful reorganization of the Orisa-Vodu Priesthood along traditional Nigerian lines. He was initiated to the Ifa priesthood by the Oluwa of Ijeun at Abeokuta, Nigeria, in August of 1972.