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Centenary Methodist Church, Hyderabad : ウィキペディア英語版 | Centenary Methodist Church, Hyderabad
Centenary Methodist Church is a church complex located at Chapel road, Abids housing two of the most prominent churches in the city. It is a Protestant Church and is under the auspices of Methodist Church in India. It was built in the 1970s in order to accommodate the increasing number of Methodists in the city. It is currently the largest church in Hyderabad in terms of seating capacity. The church shares its premises with its predecessor the Methodist chapel which was built in 1817. This church which is popularly known as the Methodist Chapel of Chapel Road was established by the missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The church has been frequently visited by politicians during Christmas Services including Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, TRS activist and Chandrababu Naidu, former Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KCR, Chiru hijack Christmas festivities, push agenda )〕 The church offers services in Telugu, English, Hindi, Marathi and Kannada. ==History== The Methodists began their missionary activities in the Deccan region of India in the mid-1800s. The South India Conference of the Methodists was also held in Hyderabad in 1884.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Church History )〕 The Methodist chapel was built much earlier in the year 1877 and has the distinction of being the oldest Christian religious structure in the city. Due to its small size, it was never referred to as a church. It is still referred to as the chapel. The much larger Centenary Methodist church was built in the 1970s in order to accommodate the growing muner of Methodists in the city. The church now caters to a cosmopolitan group of Methodists, who speak Telugu (the largest) followed by English, Hindi, Marathi and Kannada.
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