section_path: Main sights/Catholic Mission station and Central African history research centre of Bamanya
section_name: Catholic Mission station and Central African history research centre of Bamanya
paragraph_text: Catholic Mission station and Central African history research centre of Bamanya
  
  A large research centre for Central African history, originally set up by Fathers Gustaaf Hulstaert and Honoré Vinck, is at the Catholic mission station of Bamanya (Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) (CCIM)), 10 km (6.2 miles) east of Mbandaka.