45, Elgin Road, Kolkata-700 020 : Sunday Worship Service Timing – 6:30 am and 8:30 am.
St. Mary’s Church is well known as Bengali Cathedral. After building St. Paul’s Cathedral, Bishop Daniel Wlison, the first Metropolitan of India, created a Trust Fund, which he named the St. Paul’s Cathedral Endowment Fund. The Cathedral Mission started working with the help of the SPG Mission. Rev. Harihar Sandel, a pioneer missionary started worshipping in the Cathedral with a few Christian employees in July 1858 and gradually built a small congregation. It was later decided to build up a separate church for their worship.
Rev. Aghar Nath Banerjee, the second Cathedral missionary succeeded Rev. Harihar Sandel in January 1888. Bishop Edward Ralph Johnson, the fourth Metropolitan of India, consecrated this Church on the 16th of February, 1889 as St. Mary’s Church.
The dedication festival of the Church is observed on 2nd February, the feast of the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1907 Rev. Aghar Nath Banerjee was made a Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was the first Indian to receive this distinction.
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;