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| location = [[Landour]], [[Uttarakhand]]
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'''St. Paul's''' is an [[Anglican church]] in [[Landour]], [[India]]. The church was built in 1839 and first consecrated on 1 May 1840, by Bishop Daniel Wilson of [[Calcutta]].<ref name='Sharma, Raj'>{{Cite book | year=1988 | title = Christian missions in north India, 1813-1913: a case study of Meerut Division and Dehra Dun District | author1=Raj Bahadur Sharma | publisher=Mittal Publications | isbn=978-81-7099-083-3 | page=113 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DzY-3KIY1ksC&q=St.+Paul%27s+Church,+Landour,+india&pg=PA66 }}</ref> From 1840 to 1947, the church was run by [[military chaplain]]s for the [[cantonment]] used primarily by the British residents of Landour and the [[British Military Hospital, Landour|British Military Hospital]] during the [[British Raj]].

==19th century==
St. Paul's was built in 1840 by Bishop Daniel Wilson who saw the need for the construction of a church in Landour, which would become the main station of the Anglican church in the [[Dehradun district]].<ref name='Sharma, Raj 2' /> Upon its opening, St. Paul's was government owned and could seat 250 people. It was created for the particular use of the British troops based at the Landour [[convalescent]] depot.<ref name="Sharma, Raj"/>

The year 1857 marked the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], an event the church record refers to, from the British perspective, as the "insurrection" of 1857. Rev. W.J.Jay was the chaplain during this period (1856—1857) and regular services were held uninterrupted.<ref name='Sharma, Raj 2'>{{Cite book | year=2005 | title = History of Christian missions: North India perspective | author1=Raj Bahadur Sharma | edition=2 | publisher=Mittal Publications | isbn=978-81-7099-083-3 | page=90 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbVp03Zr8CIC&q=St.+Paul%27s+Church,+Landour,+india+consecrated&pg=PA59 }}</ref>

[[File:St. Paul's Church Landour- interior.jpg|thumb|left| Interior of the newly restored church, 2010]]

==Present day==
In 2005, the Pastorate Committee proposed the restoration of the church roof, due to leaking. Some money to fund the repairs was raised by the congregation but it was not enough to pay for the restoration work. At this point, some former students of [[Woodstock School]] stepped forward to help fund a complete restoration of the building. The works were completed in November 2008.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Landour's Clock Tower to regain lost glory soon | journal = The Pioneer | date = 2009-10-22 | first = Jaskiran | last = Chopra| url = http://www.dailypioneer.com/210438/Singles.html | access-date = 2010-08-24}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Churches completed in 1839]]
[[Category:19th-century Anglican church buildings]]
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[[Category:Dehradun district]]
[[Category:Churches in Uttarakhand]]
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