Calcutta: Monuments and Historic Buildings

One of the first public buildings built by the East India Company is the St. John’s Church of Kolkata which was built in 1787 and is also known as ‘The Stone Church.’ It is close to BBD Bagh.

This church is the first Anglican Church in India. Its design is similar to the famous St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church in London which is regarded as the most beautiful church in the world.

In the internal works of St. John’s Church, the Grecian architectural features are evident and there is a beautiful mixing of steeple and portico that has columns. There is an altar inside and many rare drawings of late archbishops of Canterbury.

The cynosure is a painting of ‘The Last Supper’ which is drawn by Johann Zoffani, the noted German painter. There is also a cemetery in the church, where there are graveyards of Julius Imhoff, Admiral Watson and Job Charnock, the founder of Kolkata.

The tranquillity of this church offers a feeling of eternal bliss and hence people from different corners of the world come to view the beauty and grandeur of the place.