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Bombay (City)

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==Churches==
'''Anglican'''
*[http://www.bdtapvtltd.org/allsaints.htm All Saints - Malabar Hill]*[http://www.bdtapvtltd.org/christ.htm Christ Church - [[Byculla]]
*St. Thomas Cathedral - the oldest Anglican church in the city, built in 1718, consecrated 1816, became the cathedral of the See of Bombay in 1833. On the south side of Church Gate Street. Originally the garrison church. See ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ItICAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false Bombay Church]'' by Richard Cobbe for an account of the building of the English Church.
*[http://www.bdtapvtltd.org/afghan.htm St. John the Evangelist Church, Colaba] - aka the Afghan Church, consecrated 1858. Built to commemorate the dead of the [[1st Afghan War]].
 
'''Presbyterian'''
*St Andrew's - the Scotch Kirk, Rampart Row, opened 1819
*[http://www.bdtapvtltd.org/afghan.htm St. John the Evangelist Church, Colaba] - aka the Afghan Church, consecrated 1858. Built to commemorate the dead of the [[1st Afghan War]].
'''Roman Catholic'''<br>
*Lieutenant Lachlan Macquarie arrived in India in August 1788 with the 77th Regiment of Foot. His [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/documents.html Journal] describes his life in Bombay. From Macquarie University’s [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie Archive]
*[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/gallery/india.html Eight Views of Bombay by James Wales (1791-1795)] from Macquarie University’s Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie Archive
*Cemetery and other inscriptions from the Hutchfield family website [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hutchfield/monint.html Forever England]
**[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hutchfield/sewree.html Sewree Christan Cemetery, Mumbai (Bombay)] and [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hutchfield/sewree-2.html Sewree Christian Cemetery 2]
**[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hutchfield/st-thomas-cathedral-mumbai.html St Thomas Cathedral Mumbai]
**[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hutchfield/holy-name-cathedral-mumbai.html Holy Name (Catholic) Cathedral Mumbai]
**[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hutchfield/afghan-church.html Afghan Church (St John’s)] Colaba
 
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