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Churches of Pakistan: Did you Guess Right?

Posted on January 2, 2007
Filed Under >Adil Najam, ATP Quiz, Architecture, Minorities, Religion
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The response to our ATP Photo Quiz on the Churches of Pakistan was heartening. Many of the church buildings we featured were guessed right. Some were not. It is time now to reveal the correct answers; at least some will surprise you.

First, however, let me share with you (above) this addition drawing – an engraving from March 1880, published in the Graphic – of the Cathedral in Lahore. I thought this was an impressive drawing of an impressive building and worth adding to our collection of more contemporary photographs featured in our Quiz.



Coming to the fifteen photographs in the ATP Photo-Quiz from last week, here are the correct answers (clicking on any photograph will take you to a larger image and details, where available).

(1) Rawalpindi: St. Joseph’s Hospice; (2) Lahore: St. Anthony’s Church;
(3) Murree: Anglican Church.

(4) Karachi: St. Patrick’s Church; (5) Lahore: Roman Catholic Cathedral;
(6) Karachi: Holy Trinity Cathedral; (7) Karachi: St. Joseph’s Convent Chappel;
(8) Peshawar: St. John’s Church; (9) Rawalpindi: Anglican Church.

(10) Karachi: Methodist Church; (11) Nathiagalli: St. Matthew’s Church;
(12) Khambay (near Lahore): New Apostolic Church; (13) Farooqabad (District Sheikhupura): 7th Day Adventist Church and Seminary;
(14) Wah Cantt.: Full Gospel Church; (15) Hyderabad: St. Phillip’s Church.

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  1. basit says:
    August 30th, 2007 1:14 pm

    dere r many churches in pakistan where christans could perform dere religious activities safely…

  2. August 10th, 2007 6:39 am

    awesome site…. but I think one of most beautiful church building in Rawalpindi is remain to include in this site…and that is St. Paul’s Church at Peshawr Rd. Near Flashman’s Hotel in Rawalpindi and another in Cola Centre Saddar Rawalpindi… the small building of ARP Church.

  3. Pakistani Hindu says:
    April 4th, 2007 8:39 am

    very intersting …can we have a feature on Hindu , jain or sikh temples in Pakistan as there are 100′s of these ….

    sookriya

  4. January 27th, 2007 5:02 pm

    [...] Like Adil’s earlier post on Fall Foliage in Pakistan, I think this could have been easily confused with a picture of an old lighthouse flanked by the church as being from Europe or North America; but much like the foliage, it is very much in Pakistan. But where? [...]

  5. TURAB says:
    January 4th, 2007 12:29 am

    great post and beautiful churches……

  6. Bhatti says:
    January 3rd, 2007 4:44 pm

    Very nice. Learnt so much. I am fascinated by these pictures and will certainly explore the churches of Pakistan more. In Lahore and also elsewhere.

  7. Ghalib says:
    January 2nd, 2007 7:35 pm

    i was right for the rawalpindi one but i thout the top three are in rawalpindi.

  8. Samdani says:
    January 2nd, 2007 1:32 pm

    Yes, am surprised. I am most intrigued by the newer churches at the end. Even architecturally very different from the earlier ones. I guess he early ones are grand because they were built with all the might of teh colonial empire behind them. The newer ones are built by a minority that has been under stress.

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