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Kanpur Memorial
Church
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Kanpur Memorial Church built in 1875. It was designed by Walter
Granville. This Memorial Church is popularly known as All Soul's
Cathedral. This Gothic style building has fine discolored glass windows
and interesting memorials. There is a Memorial Garden on the eastern
side. There is an engraved gothic screen, designed by Henry Yule
and in the center there is a beautifully carved figure of an angel by
Baron Carlo Marochetti, representing the 'symbol of peace'. The
Cemetery has a number of graves from the late 19th century. The
interiors of the church are decorated with the monuments to the mutiny,
including several memorial tablets. In the part enclosure to the east of
the church is the Memorial Garden, approached through two
gateways. The Memorials were relocated here after independence in 1948.
The Military Cemetery on the edge of the
cantonment contains a number of exciting graves from the late 19th
century. Kanpur is a favorite centre of activities of stalwarts like
Nanarao Peshwa, Sardar Bhagat Signh, Tantiya Tope
and Chandrashekhar Azad among others. Kanpur is also the birth
place of Shyamlal Gupta 'Parshad', composer of the famous
patriotic dittsy 'Vijayee' Great Hindi leterateurs like
Acharya Mahavir Parasad Dwivedi, Pratap Narain Mishra, Ganesh Shankar
Vidyarthi, Acharya Gaya Prasad Shukla 'Sanehi' and Balkrishna Sharma 'Navin'
are having hailed from here. A visit to the attractive Kanpur Memorial
Church brings visitors the gloomy truth of India's struggle for
Independence. |
