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[[File:The Scotch Kirk, Bombay (12674816203).jpg|thumb|Church of St Andrew in the late-1850s.]]<br />
[[File:St Andrew's church, Mumbai.jpeg|thumb|St Andrew, with a [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] facade, is located opposite the [[Lion Gate (Mumbai)|Lion Gate]].]]<br />
[[File:Church of St. Columba, Fort, Mumbai.jpg|thumb|Church of St. Columba, Fort precinct]]<br />
'''Church of St Andrew and St Columba''' (or '''Scots' Kirk''') is a church with two separate buildings located in [[Kala Ghoda]] (St Andrew) and [[Fort, Mumbai|Fort]] (St Columba) in [[Mumbai]], India. It was Bombay's first [[Church of Scotland|Scottish church]] and was built in 1819 after the arrival of the city's first [[Presbyterian]] minister, [[James Clow]], who was appointed [[chaplain]] for the [[British East India Company|East India Company]] in 1815.<ref>"Presbyterianism" 272.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/In-its-200th-year-Mumbais-Scottish-Church-meets-its-first-reverends-descendant/articleshow/47402091.cms|title=In its 200th year, Mumbai's Scottish Church meets its first reverend's descendant &#124; Mumbai News - Times of India|website=The Times of India|date=24 May 2015 }}</ref> The two Scottish churches were merged in 1938.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mid-day.com/articles/kirk-in-fort-tells-lesser-known-story-of-the-scottish-presbyterian-in-mumbai/19718169|title=Kirk in Fort tells lesser-known story of the Scottish Presbyterian in Mumbai|date=19 August 2018|website=mid-day}}</ref> <br />
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The architectural style of St Andrew is [[Greek Revival]] and the facade is said to have been inspired by [[St Martin-in-the-Fields]] in [[London]].<ref name="auto"/> Both St Andrew and St Columba are only open on Sundays for service, and on other days the latter is used for the church's homeless street children project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.skerriespublications.com/Peata-Ruadh-is-supporting-the-Street-Children-Project-in-Mumbai|title = Peata Ruadh is supporting the Street Children Project in Mumbai | publisher=Skerries | first=Fiona | last=Hulbert | accessdate=11 June 2022}}</ref><br />
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*(1869). "Presbyterianism in Victoria and Otago and Southland." ''The Reformed Presbyterian magazine''. 1 July.<br />
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[[Category:Churches in Mumbai]]<br />
[[Category:Church of North India church buildings]]<br />
[[Category:1819 establishments in India]]<br />
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[[Category:Greek Revival church buildings]]<br />
[[Category:Neoclassical church buildings in India]]<br />
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