About
Who We Are
Our identity and mission as a parish community.
Our Parish
Our Lady Queen of Peace (OLQP) Catholic Church is an urban parish in South B, Nairobi, about 15 minutes from the Central Business District. Founded in 1968 by the Holy Ghost Fathers, the parish has been run by the Missionaries of Africa since 1983. OLQP is one of the 7 parishes that make up the Central Deanery of the Archdiocese of Nairobi, and has one outstation, St. Margaret, in Hazina.
Our Mission
To proclaim the Gospel, celebrate the sacraments, and form missionary disciples who serve God and neighbor. This mission is reflected in the very architecture of our church: from the outside, the building takes the shape of a dove, a sign of how the Catholic Church embraces peace; inside, it takes the shape of a heart, a reminder of how delicate peace is and how it must flow from within each of us to be lived out in our families and community.
That commitment to peace is not only symbolic. The parish organizes and continues to organize inter-denominational prayers to encourage and foster peaceful co-existence among the different groups in our society.
Our Community
Fifty years on, Our Lady Queen of Peace has grown into a large and vibrant parish family of 45 Jumuiya (Small Christian Communities), alongside many ministries, sodalities, and lay apostolates. See our Groups page for the full list.
Over the last 50 years, the parish has baptized 14,016 faithful and officiated 1,372 marriages.
Church and Community
OLQP enjoys warm and cordial relationships with the religious communities and institutions around us, including the Missionaries of Africa, the Marist Brothers, the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (MSOLA), the Assumption Sisters of Eldoret, the Sisters of Mercy, and the Little Sisters of Jesus. The parish also supports Catholic-sponsored schools and colleges in the neighborhood, and works closely with nearby hospitals, including Mater Misericordiae Hospital, particularly during medical camps and emergencies.
OLQP is also the founding parish of Kwetu Home of Peace, a ministry in Madaraka started under the spiritual guidance of Fr. Michel Meunier. Originally a drop-in service offering food and counseling to street children, it grew into a residential and day training program equipping children with useful skills, and continues today under the Assumption Sisters of Eldoret.