The Church of South India’s Anderson Church in Parrys turned 150 on Tuesday, March 3. The following Sunday, a special thanksgiving service was

held, presided over by Rt Rev V Devasahayam, the Bishop-in-Madras of the Church of South India.

It was on February 22, 1837 that Reverend John Anderson arrived in Madras as the first missionary of the Church of Scotland. He established The General Assembly’s School in a rented house on the east side of Armenian Street with the headmaster and 59 boys from the St Andrew’s School forming the core (the institution in 1877 became the Madras Christian College and School and shifted to George Town).

• Full story at the Times of India.

• Filed under Church of Scotland, History, Indian Sub-Continent, Scottish Christian News Monitor.