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The convent, mosque and their odd noisy neighbours

Space Lounge club operating at night even after City Hall ordered its closure. [Photo: James Mwangi]

Eight years ago, Felisters Mutuku made a decision to abandon worldly pleasures and become a Catholic sister. She had prayed, fasted, consulted.

When she felt God had spoken to her heart, she joined the convent of Ursuline Sisters on Ngong Road, Nairobi. She says since childhood, she had a mental picture of how life in the convent would be – serene, quiet and peaceful.

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