Parliament Gardens

Parliament Gardens is a small park in downtown Windhoek, Namibia. It is positioned among the Tintenpalast and the Christuskirche. It turned into laid out in 1932 and became initially referred to as the Tintenpalast gardens, adopting its present call after Namibian independence in 1990. Parliament Gardens incorporates Namibia's first publish-independence monument: a bronze-forged statue of the Herero leader Hosea Kutako. Two different Namibian nationalists also are honoured with bronze statues in the gardens: Hendrik Samuel Witbooi and Theophilus Hamutumbangela. The 3 statues flank the stairs up to parliament's main front.

The gardens used to be an olive plantation, and nevertheless encompass an olive grove. They also incorporate a bowling inexperienced lined with bougainvilleas along side a thatched-roof clubhouse. Twice a month the gardens host "Theatre inside the Park", run by means of the College of the Arts. In 2016, the opening of the Namibian Parliament turned into held within the Parliament Gardens because of restricted space inside the Tintenpalast. Due to a exchange to the Constitution in 2014, the wide variety of parliamentarians had expanded extensively, and so joint sittings need to be held somewhere else.