Heritage record
St. John Cathedral Church
Khyber PakhtunkhwaChurchProtected
A church is situated near the Peshawar Club in the cantonment area, Saddar Peshawar. It is the oldest church in Peshawar, founded in 1851 by Dr. Kemp, one of the founders of the Peshawar Mission. It`s foundation was laid on 23rd March 1851 by Archdeacon Pratt and was completed in 1860 and was consecrated by Bishop Cotton of Calcutta. The building with its tall spires gives a monumental effect to the cantonment from a great distance.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 4608
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Peshawar
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Church
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 33.99870, 71.53120 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Dani, Ahmed Hassan. (1995). Peshawar: Historic City of the Frontier. Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore.
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