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Fiona Fernandez: The other museums

Bombay's historic churches offer fascinating insight into the city's growth, and act as museums in their own right that ought to be converted into experiential visits

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St Thomas Cathedral, Fort, which celebrates its 300th anniversary
St Thomas Cathedral, Fort, which celebrates its 300th anniversary

Fiona FernandezEach time belief, curiosity or work has led us to enter one of the city's many historic churches - big or small - we've been awestruck by what lay inside. Be it the pipe organ inside the Wesley Methodist Church in Colaba, the remarkably sturdy wooden cross at Bandra's St Andrew's or the frescoes that grace Holy Name Cathedral. While the story behind how the neoclassical pillars of Byculla's Christ Church reached its final home intrigued us, St John the Baptist Church's recreated pulpit left us spellbound.

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