St. Bartholomew's Church, Mysore
| St. Bartholomew's (St. Bart's) | |
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| St. Bartholomew's Church | |
St.Bartholomew Church
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| Coordinates: 12°18′36″N 76°39′26″E / 12.3101246°N 76.6573182°E | |
| Location | Mysore |
| Country | India |
| Denomination | Church of South India |
| Tradition | Anglican |
| History | |
| Former name(s) | Anglican Church |
| Consecrated | 29 November 1830 (ground) |
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| Style | English |
| Groundbreaking | 1830 |
| Completed | 1832 |
| Construction cost | INR 3,500 |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Karnataka Southern Diocese |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | Rt. Rev. Dr. John Stephen Sadananda |
St. Bartholomew's Church is an Anglican church, built by the Madras Government for the East India Company troops stationed in Kingdom of Mysore and is located in Lashkar Mohalla, on the Nilgiri Road, near the noisy Mysore sub-urban bus stand in Mysore City. The church grounds was consecrated on 29 November 1830 by Bishop Turner of Calcutta, (p. 327) and the building was completed in 1832. The church is named after Saint Bartholomew, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ, and is said to have visited India in the first century AD, and preached the Christian gospel in the Kalyan, Thane and Raigad regions of present-day Maharashtra.
The church services at the St. Bartholomew's Church are conducted in English.
St. Bartholomew's Church is amongst the oldest churches in Mysore and was established to serve the Christian congregations of the European officers under the service of the Maharaja of Mysore and the British Resident of Mysore. The land for the church was gifted by Krishnaraja Wadiyar III (1799-1868), and continued to be patronised by the successive Wadiyar rulers of Mysore. The then British Resident of Mysore, Arthur Henry Cole (1780-1844) (after whom Coles Park in Fraser Town, Bangalore is named after) paid an important role in getting the support of the Maharaja of Mysore for the construction of St. Bartholomew's Church.
The cost of construction of the St. Bartholomew's Church was INR 3,500, which was borne by the European military officers and civilians of the congregation.
In 1847, the St. Bartholomew's Church got affiliated to the Anglican denomination. In 1852, the church was handed over the Government of Madras. The church was involved in schooling the children of European officers, offering English Education, when no other English medium school existed in Bangalore or Mysore.
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