15, Sudder Street, Kolkata-700 016 : Sunday Worship Service Timing – 11:30am
The Sudder street Church was formerly known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church and is now renamed as C.N.I. Wesleyan Church. Sometime in1862 Rev. James Broodbent, who was the Chaplain at Fort William and a Wesleyan Methodist missionary, contemplated the erection of a Chapel in Sudder Street. He along with Mr H.G. Highfield, set about the making of this Chapel which was to be used both by the military personnel as well as civilians then residing in Calcutta and Barrackpore. Since they were unable to raise the necessary funds from overseas for this purpose, they had to depend on a mortgage to help erect this Chapel. This Church, by their determined efforts was erected in 1866 for the worship of both civilians as well as the military garrison.
The Church, during the India Pakistan war, took up an active role in rehabilitating the Bangladesh refugees. This was initiated by the Rev. John Hastings, the Rev Kenyon E. Wright and Rev John Claphan. This was also the first ecumenical effort where the Church of England churches came to work jointly for the refugees. In 1970 the Wesleyan Methodist Church joined the Church of North India, a United Church. Since most of the British forces had left this Church, the congregation became thin with few Indian members. Even though today, this is a small congregation it has a Mission to minister the spiritual needs of the people, staying in the vicinity and to visitors who come from overseas.
At present the Church has only one service in the morning. Every first and third Sunday the Holy Communion is served. The Women’s fellowship meets every first Sunday of the month. They organize sometimes a special service to bring awareness amongst the women. Apart from this Women’s Fellowship for Christian Service also visits different Old Age Homes and Children’s Homes and distribute food items and clothes.
The Pastorate Committee meets quite regularly and tries to keep the congregation vibrant and active.
St. Paul’s Cathedral(Between 1858 – 1861); St. Johns’ Church, Consecrated on 24 June 1787; Union Chapel(1821); St. Andrew’s Church(Opened for public worship on 8 March 1818); Calcutta Hill Christian Church; CNI Wesleyan Church; St. Stephen’s Church, Kidderpore, Consecrated in 1846); St. Thomas’ Church, Mirza Ghalib Street(Opened for public Worship on November 20th 1831); St. Barnabas’ Church, Consecrated on 23rd December’ 1867; St. James Church, Kolkata, Consecrated on 25th July 1864; St. Thomas’ Church, Howrah, Consecrated in 1832; St. Luke’s Church, Bosekati; Sadhu Sundar Singh Girja, Bankra; Christ Church, Liluah (Hindi); Christ Church, Liluah (Bengali); Church of the Epiphany, Established in 1863; Jibon Jyoti Upasanaloy; St. Bartholomew’s Church; St. Johns Church Nahazari; St. Peter’s Church, Inaugurated on 20th June, 1945; St. Nicholas Church; Oxford Mission Chapel; Prabhu Jishu Mandir (Geonkhali); St. Mary’s Church, Consecrated on 16th February, 1889; Duff Church, Established in 1848; Christ Church Kolkata, Dedicated in 1839; St. George’s Church; Dedicated on 1st January 1936; Holy Trinity Church, (Opened for public Worship in November,1826); Emmanuel Church, Krishnapur, Established in 1829; St. James’ Church Baranagar; Serampore Johnnagar Church founded in 1880; Chinsurah Church, founded in 1825; St. Saviour’s Hindi Church, built in 1449; St. Saviour’s Tamil Church, started functioning in 1860; Bhowanipore Congregational Church; Osmond Memorial Church, founded in 1868;