Location of Church at Bandikui, History & Architecture of Church at ‘Bandikui’.
Location of the Church:
This Church is situated at a distance of 34 Km from Dausa City in Bandikui town, District Dausa, Rajasthan.
History & Architecture of the Church:
This small but graceful Roman style Church, built from local pink sandstone, for protestant Christians was built up during British Empire in India.
Bandikui has been a railway junction for over a century now and the British chose it as it is located between Jaipur and Alwar to build the first railway junction in 1873. When Bandikui was being developed as a railway junction, a number of Britons and Christians settled there. Over 140 years ago, a large number of the British and Indian Christians settled there felt the need to build a church near the railway station. This Protestant church was built in Roman architecture style. After the British left, the church was maintained by the Anglo Indian communities and Christians, but as the Christians and Anglo-Indian population started dwindling, there was nobody to maintain the church. As the church was almost deserted, miscreants vandalize it and took away windows, doors and glasses and even the idol of Jesus was stolen.
It was later restored to it’s original glory in 2013.
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