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"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith"- Bible, 2 Peter
The Central Baptist Church was an attempt by the Central Baptist Missionary to set up a religious institution in the hub of the Delhi City; it has turned out to be one of the most prestigious institutions that serves the rationale of dispersing devout belief and idea, so that people while embracing it may find the presence of an omnipresent force that rules the universe.
Set up in 1814 by the Baptist Missionary Society, the church has a splendid design, constituting of marble stone, arranged in the form of semicircle. This attributes a touch of elegance to this church.
The main places of visit over here are:
Gurdwara Sisganj: It is a sacred place of worship for the Sikhs. It was a place where the ninth guru of the Sikhs named Guru Teg Bahadur was beheaded on the orders of Aurangzeb; he was martyred under a banyan tree because he refused to embrace Muslim religion when he was forced to do so by the Mughal Emperor.
Sunheri Masjid: Built by emperor Ahmed Shah this mosque have been lucky enough to escape from the debilitating effects of the Indian war of independence (1857)
Jama Masjid: Masjid-i-Jahan Numa is the added name for the celebrated construction that had been erected by Shah Jahan. Jama connotes Friday, so the Friday's prayer ceremony is the most auspicious one here.
.Dara Shikoh Library: It is positioned in the frontier of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and is under the management of section of Archeology. The 1857 Mutiny robbed the library of its precious books.
Lothian Cemetery: The first English cemetery in Delhi is the Lothian Cemetery and consists of many marked and unmarked graves, and few convoluted sandstones.
Chandni Chowk: Chandni Chowk also called the Moonlight Square, or Trafalgar Square emblematizes a uniform m�lange of assorted mores and ethnicity. Here one can discover numerous places of worship as well as plenty of markets that are replete with thousand different items.
Salimgarh Fort: The islet in the river Yamuna, multilateral in its configuration hemmed in by solid mason debris sandstone wall.
www.indiaprofile.com offers you the advantage of an online booking for a tour to the nearby places of the Central Baptist Church.
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