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A continuation post.
07th January 2017.
After the darshan of Sri Vaikunta Perumal,
Manimangalam, we had our lunch at Sri Balaji Bhavan, Pallavaram, and landed at
St Thomas Garrison Church located at No.1, on GST Road, St Thomas Mount. The
church was constructed as per the request of Military personnel of St Thomas
Mount but later shared between St Thomas Mount and Pallavaram. After crossing
many roadblocks the Church was finally completed in the year 1830 CE, using brick
and lime mortar. Initially, it was built with two floors and one floor was pulled down to
fulfill the airport authority's norms. The roof is constructed as a bomb-proof roof. The church was
named after St Thomas, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus. The original bell made in the UK was replaced by a Rangoon, which was
donated by a member. It is believed that the railings were made of steel
recovered from the Tippu’s arms. The church has 13 inscription tablets, mainly records the personnel who rendered service to this Church.
In addition to this Mr Gopu explained the
experiment of velocity of the sound was done between this Church and Fort St
George by firing a gun measuring the time delay. This was adopted later in
deciding the time lag between India and London and All India Railways.
LOCATION OF THE CHURCH : CLICK
HERE
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to be continued ( Cosmopolitan Club – Annexe – Saidapet )
---OM
SHIVAYA NAMA---
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