All Saints Church, also known as All Hallows Church, is a historical Protestant church built in the late 19th century in

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that is part of the Church of North India, a province of the worldwide

Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is a Christian Full communion, communion consisting of the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. The archbishop of Canterbury in England acts as a focus of unity, ...

. All Saints Church falls within the Diocese of Amritsar and along with Holy Family Catholic Church, is one of the two Christian churches in the city. The church is dedicated to the Christian

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of All Saints.

History

All Saints church dates from the 1890s - at the time when the opening of the Jhelum Valley road, and the establishment of a

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Residency in

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, prompted an increasing number of Brits to come to

. It was a

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- a place to escape the heat of the plains. And for a few hundred among the British, it became their home.

Architecture

All Saints has changed hugely over the past 120 years. Only the base of the tower remains from the original construction. The church had been burnt down during protests in the 1960s and again in the 1970s. It was rebuilt using a Russian design, and making less use of wood to make it less vulnerable to fire. It was badly hit - along with so much of riverside Srinagar - in the 2014 floods. But it has recovered and is well maintained.

References

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