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Reformation · Church of South India with Portuguese, Dutch, and Anglican historySt. Francis Church, KochiFort Kochi, Kerala, IndiaPortuguese church established in the early 16th centuryA modest Fort Kochi church that passed from Portuguese Catholic to Dutch Reformed to Anglican and united Protestant use, recording shifting empires on India’s coast.Read the full history Modern & Global · Catholic with ancient Indian Christian contextSan Thome BasilicaChennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaPresent Neo-Gothic church built in the 1890s over older Portuguese and local shrine traditionsChennai’s white-spired basilica over the traditional tomb of Thomas, connecting Catholic pilgrimage with India’s ancient Christian memory.Read the full history Reformation · CatholicSé Cathedral of GoaOld Goa, IndiaConstruction begun 1562; completed in the 17th centuryThe immense cathedral of Portuguese Goa, built as a monument of conquest and archiepiscopal power within an Indian Christian landscape older and wider than empire.Read the full history Reformation · Catholic — Jesuit heritageBasilica of Bom JesusOld Goa, India1594–1605The Jesuit basilica housing the body of Francis Xavier, a center of Asian Catholic pilgrimage and a monument inseparable from mission and colonial expansion.Read the full history