Ekwendeni is a town in the Northern Region of Malawi. It lies about 20 kilometres from Mzuzu, in the Mzimba District. Ekwendeni was started by Scottish missionaries; in 1889 Walter Angus Elmslie opened a mission station at Ekwendeni. It has one of the oldest churches in Malawi belonging to the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, the local equivalent of the Church of Scotland.