Medak Cathedral Church near Hyderabad Telangana largest in India
Medak Cathedral at Medak district in Telangana State, India, is one of the largest churches in India and has been the cathedral church of the Diocese of Medak of the Church of South India since 1947. This church built by Charles Walker Posnett British Wesleyan Methodists, it was consecrated on 25 December 1924. The Medak diocese is the single largest diocese in Asia and the second in the world after the Vatican.
The cathedral is 100 feet wide and 200 feet long, and conforms to the Gothic Revival style. It can accommodate about 5,000 people at a time for the prayer. The mosaic tiles were imported from Britain and are of six different colours. Italian masons from Bombay were engaged for laying the decorative flooring. Massive pillars built with fine hewn and well dressed grey stone support the gallery and the whole edifice. The roof of the church is made sound-proof by means of hollow sponge material, and has an impressive style of vaulting. The surface of the vaulting has the shape of squares. The bell tower is 175 feet high. It is said that when the Nizam Nawab of Hyderabad discovered that the church would be higher than the Charminar, he made a vain bid to have its height reduced.
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The Medak church is 90 kms by road from Hyderabad, Telangana capital city.
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