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The descendants associated with the plantation civilization during the British play tin present easy entree the details of their ancestors’ work with conscionable a azygous click. The elegant British-built St. George CSI church, featuring Gothic-style architecture, located astatine Pallikunnu adjacent Kuttikanam successful Idukki, has launched a website that describes its past arsenic good arsenic that of the British cemetery adjacent to it. The Pallikkunnu CSI religion is simply a surviving memorial of the plantation industry’ beginnings successful the Peerumade hills during the assemblage era.
The CSI Church was built successful 1869. The past Travancore kings handed implicit 15.62 acres of onshore to a CMS missionary, Henry Baker Junior, for the operation of the church.
The CSI East Kerala Diocese nationalist relations serviceman (PRO), Viju P. Chacko said, “The British cemetery houses the graves of 34 British people. The descendants of Henry Baker Junior arsenic good arsenic radical from overseas and elsewhere who regularly sojourn the church, requested to acceptable up a website to supply details astir the past of the church. Based connected the requests, the church decided to unfastened a website and spell integer with the aged documents from the play of 1869 to this day,” said Mr. Chacko.
Mr. Chacko agrees that the Gothic-style church, the British Cemetery, and the sedate of the achromatic equine – of plantation legend John Daniel Munro – person go large attractions here.
“Now, details of the church’s past tin beryllium viewed done the link https://stgeorgecsichurchofficial.com. The website includes the details of Henry Baker Junior, John Daniel Munro, and his achromatic equine Downy, the graves of the British people, the 156-year-old java works successful the religion premises, and the clergyman who served successful the religion implicit the years,” said Mr. Chacko.
Church services to spell digital
According to religion authorities, successful addition, the religion is moving to digitalise each of its services. In the future, the devotees associated with the religion astir the globe tin enactment successful the church-related work digitally. Idukki territory panchayat president Rarichen Neeranakunnel inaugurated the religion website, and Peerumade panchayat president R. Dineshan inaugurated the religion digitalisation task connected Tuesday.
Recently the State Tourism section had announced a ₹99.92 lakh tourism task for the improvement and beautification of the Pallikkunnu church.
