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| native_name = ہولی فیملی کیتھولک چرچ
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| founder = Msgr. Winkley MHM
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| parish = Holy Family Parish
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| archbishop = [[Anil Joseph Thomas Couto]]
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| priestincharge = Fr. Suresh Britto
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'''Holy Family Catholic Church''' is a [[Roman Catholic]] church located at Maulana Azad Road, [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India. It was established in 1896 by Msgr. Winkley [[Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill|MHM]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/politics/bell-rings-in-kashmir-church-after-50-years-bringing-together-people-of-all-faith|title=Bell Rings in Kashmir Church After 50 Years, Bringing Together People of All Faiths|website=The Wire|access-date=2018-09-06}}</ref><ref name=Satish2014>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/jk-polls-invisible-native-christians-least-talked-about-and-most-neglected-730374.html|title=J&K polls: Invisible native Christians, least talked about and most neglected|last=Satish|first=DP|date=9 December 2014|publisher=[[CNN-IBN]]|language=English|accessdate=13 February 2016|quote=Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar has two churches - Holy Family Catholic Church on Maulana Azad road and the Protestant's All Saints Church near Sher-E-Kashmir cricket stadium.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2013-12/25/c_132996064.htm | title=Christians celebrate Christmas in Indian-controlled Kashmir | date=25 December 2013 | agency=[[Xinhua News Agency]] | accessdate=25 December 2013}}</ref> Before the Curia moved to [[Jammu]] on 23 December 1986, the parish served as a [[cathedral]] when the Curia was in Srinagar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jammusrinagardiocese.org/pages/history|title=Diocese of Jammu - Srinagar {{!}} A diocese was erected on September 7, 1986, with St. Mary's Jammu Cantt, as Cathedral|website=www.jammusrinagardiocese.org|access-date=2018-09-06}}</ref> Holy Family Catholic Church and [[All Saints Church, Srinagar|All Saints Protestant Church]] are the two main churches for the minority Christian community in the city.<ref name=Satish2014/>

== Arson and reconstruction ==
The [[church arson|church was set on fire]] on 7 June 1967 by protestors demonstrating against the [[Arab-Israeli war]].<ref name="Daijiworld2017">{{cite web|url=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=479056|title=Church bell rings in Kashmir church after 5 decades|date=30 August 2017|publisher=[[Daijiworld Media]]|language=English|accessdate=13 September 2018|quote=The British-era church lost its original bell 50 years ago in an arson attack. According to church officials, the church and its belfry were damaged in the attack by protesters demonstrating against the 1967 Mideast war.}}</ref><ref name="Maqbool2017">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/politics/bell-rings-in-kashmir-church-after-50-years-bringing-together-people-of-all-faith|author=Majid Maqbool|title=Bell Rings in Kashmir Church After 50 Years, Bringing Together People of All Faiths|website=The Wire|access-date=2018-09-06|quote=The original church bell was damaged in an arson attack on June 7, 1967. Fifty years later, the new bell – a contribution from a local Christian family – was brought here from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.}}</ref><ref name="Ashiq2017"/> During the arson, the [[Belfry (architecture)|belfry]] was destroyed.<ref name="Daijiworld2017"/><ref name="Maqbool2017"/><ref name="Ashiq2017">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/church-bell-rings-in-kashmir-church-after-5-decades/article19944708.ece|title=After 50 years, bell rings in harmony at Kashmir’s 120-year-old church|last=Ashiq|first=Peerzada|date=2017-10-29|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-09-06|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> The church was rebuilt,<ref name="Ashiq2017"/> and in 2017 a new [[church bell]], which was donated by a Kashmiri Indian Christian family and made in the Indian city of [[Moradabad]], was installed at Holy Family Catholic Church.<ref name="Maqbool2017"/> This occurred in an [[interfaith]] service, in which Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh clergymen assembled “to jointly ring the new bell for the first time in the past 50 years”.<ref name="Ashiq2017"/>

==See also==

* [[List of Catholic churches in India]]
*[[St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Baramulla)]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=479056 Church bell rings in Kashmir church after 5 decades - Daijiworld Media]

[[Category:1896 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic churches completed in 1896]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic churches in Jammu and Kashmir]]
[[Category:Churches in Srinagar]]
[[Category:19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in India]]
[[Category:Interfaith dialogue]]
[[Category:Attacks on churches in Asia]]
[[Category:Churches destroyed by arson]]

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