Afghan Church

The Church of St John the Evangelist, AKA Afghan Church, is a church of Anglican heritage that belongs to the Mumbai diocese of the Church of North India. It was built by the British between 1847 & 1858 to commemorate the dead of the 1st Afghan War and the 1842 retreat from Kabul. Memorials at the rear of the nave record casualties from the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War. The foundation stone was laid in 1847; it was consecrated in 1858, and work on the steeple was finished in 1865.