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Description: | Photograph by an unknown photographer of the Union Church in Simla, part of the Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma. Simla, now the capital of Himachal Pradesh, is a hill-station at a height of 7000 ft in the Himalayan foothills, developed as a summer retreat and sanatorium by the British. The Union Church was opened on the 1st May 1870 and was a place where Presbyterians and Dissenters could worship. The Rev John Fordyce was its first minister, who preached to a congregation during the summer months and during the winter acted as Commissioner of the Anglo-Indian Christian Union, a society of Evangelical churches. The church held 240 people and was built on the 'Constantia' estate in Simla. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Christianity Sacred Architecture Churches Architecture Faith and Religion People And Society | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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