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The Black Hole Memorial, St. John's Church, Calcutta, India. In memoriam of the dead, the British erected a 15-metre (50') high obelisk; it now is in the graveyard of (Anglican) St. John's Church, Calcutta. Holwell had erected a tablet on the site of the 'Black Hole' to commemorate the victims but, at some point (the precise date is uncertain ...
The church was founded in 1882 as Garfield Baptist Church when a small group of Christians started a mission church. The church's earliest days unfolded in a small, wooden-frame building on the corner of Second Street and Garfield Avenue in Milwaukee. By 1951 a new building was added adjacent to the old one, housing the growing number of ...
The archdiocese's cathedral, the seat of its archbishop, is the Cathedral of the Most Holy Rosary, commonly called the "Portuguese Church". Calcutta also houses the oldest Catholic church in the area, the Basilica of the Holy Rosary, in Bandel - a former Portuguese settlement - some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the city of Kolkata .
The Missionaries of Charity (Latin: Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic centralised religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women [3] established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. As of 2023, it consisted of 5,750 members of religious sisters.
Jael Silliman: Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope, Seagull, Calcutta; Brandeis, 2003, ISBN 1584653051; Dalia Ray: Calcutta's Jewish Heritage, Minerva, Calcutta; Kaustav Chakrabarti: Glimpses into the Jewish World of Calcutta 1798–1948, Readers Service, Kolkata; Mavis Hyman: Jews of the Raj, Bristol, UK
St. John's Church, originally a cathedral, was among the first public buildings erected by the East India Company after Kolkata (Calcutta) became the effective capital of British India. [1] It is located at the North-Western corner of Raj Bhavan , and served as the Anglican Cathedral of Calcutta till 1847, when the see was transferred to St ...
Cardinal Mar George Alencherry, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Ernakulam–Angamaly and former Head of the Syro-Malabar Church, age 79. Oswald Cardinal Gracias, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bombay, age 79. Cardinal Mor Baselios Cleemis, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum and Head of the Malankara Catholic Church, age 65.
A view of Calcutta from Fort William (1807) Plan (top-view) of Fort William, c. 1844 There are two Fort Williams. The original fort was built in the year 1696 by the British East India Company under the orders of Sir John Goldsborough which took a decade to complete.