Legal & Colonial History

St. Thomas Cathedral

Fort, Mumbai

Managed byRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay

CategoryLegal & Colonial History, Religious Heritage

A Gothic Revival Anglican cathedral consecrated on Christmas Day 1718, making it the oldest British-era building in Mumbai and the city's first Anglican church. It was built partly with funds from East India Company employees and named after Saint Thomas, following an earlier failed attempt to construct a church on this site. Its interior is lined with marble memorial tablets to British soldiers, merchants and administrators of colonial Bombay. The cathedral still holds regular services within the historic Fort precinct.

Did you know? St. Thomas Cathedral was Bombay's first Anglican church, and construction was so delayed that early British residents nicknamed the empty plot "Spratt's Folly" after the reverend who first proposed it decades before it was finally completed in 1718.

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