In the 1960’s Matasia was a small village, set up during the Mau Mau era. The community within Matasia, comprised of all non Maasai’s (Kikuyu and Kamba communities) in the Ngong area, who were forced to live within a cluster of houses surrounded by barbed wires to protect them at night from the Mau Mau freedom fighters.
This was the argument given by the British Colonial government for keeping communities in protected camps. However, the communities in these camps knew too well that the reason for keeping them in these camps was a means to deny the Mau Mau freedom fighters from getting any help or hospitality from the local population. Such villages also existed in Kiserian and in Oloolua. After emergency the people left those villages, except in Ngong where people settled permanently and now formed the Kijiji (Gichagi) on the hill above the Bishop’s House. In Matasia, the communities settled and began a small shopping Centre (Matasia Shopping Center), a P.C.E.A church and a primary school for their children.
FEAST DAY: 11 JUNE
MASS SCHEDULE
ST. BARNABAS PARISH CHURCH
Sundays:
| 1ST MASS | 8AM – 10AM |
| 2ND MASS | 10AM – 12PM |
| 3RD MASS | 12PM – 1PM |
| 7AM | 8AM |
ST. JOACHIM & ANN
Sundays
| 10AM | 12PM |
