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Photos: Suman Wadhwa (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Varun Kutty (talk) (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Harvinder Chandigarh (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Neo-Gothic Anglican church of 1853 on Kasauli's Lower Mall, with a clock tower and stained glass.
Christ Church's foundation stone was laid in 1844 and it opened in 1853. The neo-Gothic church has a cruciform plan, a clock tower added in the 1880s and stained-glass windows, including a Crucifixion set above the altar. It is managed by the Church of North India and sits among pines near the bus stand.
Highlights
- Clock tower
- Stained glass
- Colonial cemetery
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