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The elegant British-built St. George CSI Church, with its celebrated gothic-style architecture astatine Pallikunnu, adjacent Kuttikanam, successful Idukki, yet gets a State authorities tourism project. According to officials, the Tourism section has allotted ₹99.92 lakh for the improvement and beautification of religion – a surviving memorial of the opening of the plantation manufacture during the British play successful the Peerumade hills successful Idukki.
According to officials, the wealth has been allotted for the tourism task based connected a elaborate task study submitted by the Tourism department. The authorities allotted funds for the project’s works including the entranceway gate, snack bar, toilet block, pathway, landscaping, sitting benches, electrical lights, discarded bins, playing equipment, parking area, and CCTV network. Officials said that the task is expected to beryllium completed wrong 12 months.
CSI East Kerala Diocese nationalist relations serviceman (PRO) Viju P. Chacko said that, isolated from the spiritual aspect, Pallikkunnu CSI Church is the model of the beverage plantation past successful the Peerumade hills successful Idukki. “The religion and cemetery volition supply a little representation of the plantation civilization of Peerumade and those who are down the initiatives. We anticipation the tourism task volition assistance pull much tourists to Idukki,” said Mr. Chacko.
The Pallikkunnu CSI religion was constructed by British missionary Henry Baker Junior successful 1869.
“The tomb of a achromatic horse, named Downy, belonged to John Daniel Munro, who was instrumental successful processing beverage plantations successful the Peerumade hills, and Munnar is 1 of the large attractions successful the British-built cemetery. It is simply a uncommon information that the tomb of a equine is preserved successful a religion cemetery,” said Mr. Chacko.
According to sources, for the archetypal clip successful the territory the section has allotted a tourism task for a religion of humanities significance.
According to humanities records, the archetypal commercialized beverage plantation began successful the Peerumade hills successful 1875. The Pallikkunnu CSI religion played a pivotal relation successful the improvement of the plantation assemblage successful the Peerumade hills during the British period.
