Holy Family Catholic Church is a

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church located at Maulana Azad Road, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It was established in 1896 by Msgr. Winkley MHM. Before the Curia moved to

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on 23 December 1986, the parish served as a

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when the Curia was in Srinagar. Holy Family Catholic Church and All Saints Protestant Church are the two main churches for the minority Christian community in the city.

Arson and reconstruction

The church was set on fire on 7 June 1967 by protestors demonstrating against the

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. During the arson, the belfry was destroyed. The church was rebuilt, and in 2017 a new

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, which was donated by a Kashmiri Indian Christian family and made in the Indian city of

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, was installed at Holy Family Catholic Church. This occurred in an

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service, in which Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh clergymen assembled “to jointly ring the new bell for the first time in the past 50 years”.

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Arson and reconstruction

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