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Churches and missions
*St Theresa - built 1893
*St Thomas' Church - (Middleton Row). Begun in 1841, adjacent to the Convent of Our Lady of Loreto
*Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Boitakhana (Baithakhana), founded in 1810, as a Portuguese mission church. The address of the Church was 147 Bipin Behari Ganguly Street (Old Bowbazar Street). It is situated quite close to the Sealdah Station, and near the Railway Barracks where most of the Anglo Indian who were employed by the Railway lived. <ref>Munro, George [httpJoyce] [https://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia.rootsweb.com/2004-12thread/7731504/1101937632 Entally] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 1 December 2004. Retrieved 20 February 20151 October 2018.</ref> A book was published in 1915 in Calcutta ''The Registers & Inscriptions of the Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Baithakhana (1810-1914)'' by [https://web.archive.org/web/20170126052141/http://www.goethals.in/collections/felixrajarticles/Hhosten.htm Fr H Hosten]. A copy of this book is available in Calcutta at the [http://www.goethals.in/searchdefault.asp?cat=38 htm Goethals Indian Library] category Various Indian Missions subcategory Portuguese Jurisdiction, reference Id : 38L/135. At least some of the records appear in the [[Calcutta#FIBIS resources|FIBIS database, refer above]], but it is suspected that only some of the records were copied by Percy-Smith and Bullock. From copies of baptismal records obtained from the Church in the 1960s, and held by the FIBIS research co-ordinator, it would appear that some of the registers in the 1800s were noted in Portuguese.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20151009030439/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060415/asp/calcutta/story_6095119.asp "Non-Christians in church flock"] April 15, 2006. telegraphindia.com, now an archived webpage. Article about Our Lady of Dolours.
*[http://www.goethals.in/GoethalNews/2008Apr-JunGNews.htm Catholic <nowiki>[</nowiki>and other<nowiki>]</nowiki> Heritage Churches of Calcutta] goethals.in
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