Church of the Holy Rosary of Tejgaon (Daca, Bangladesh)
In the district of Tejgaon, in the current Daca, the iglesia del Santo Rosario, one of the oldest Catholic temples in Bangladesh. The tradition, recorded in its own front, places its foundation in 1677 from the hands of Portuguese agustines. The Bengali people call her with affection Japan Rani"Queen of the Rosary." Today it is the largest Catholic parish in the country and keeps the memory of almost three and a half centuries of Marian prayer by the river.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The date of 1677 is carved in the pinnacle of the temple and is accepted by the parish and by the Archdiocese; the Portuguese Augustines raised it in Tebkunipara, prolonging the presence in Bengal authorized from 1579 by a pharmaceutical of the Mogol Emperor Akbar.
- The specialists consider it the best preserved example of Portuguese religious architecture in the Bengal region: rectangular ship with side and square apse ships, thick walls of more than one metre and circular brick columns that were preserved when they renewed the original wooden cover.
- Before building their own church in 1781, the Armenians of Daca prayed in this temple; their tombstones are still embedded in the walls of the ancient church, and the oldest, that of Khojah Avietes Lazar, dates from June 7, 1714.
- The complex today brings together two temples: the Portuguese church of 1677, today a chapel of perpetual veneration reserved for veneration, and a new church with capacity for more than a thousand faithful where the ordinary masses are celebrated.
- On December 2, 2017 Pope Francis visited the old Portuguese church during his trip to Bangladesh, met with about a thousand five hundred priests, religious and seminarians, and spoke unexpectedly of the rosary as "a beautiful meditation on the mysteries of faith."
- The community has grown from 453 faithful in 1952 to more than seventeen thousand today; every 7 October they come to the patron party around twelve thousand pilgrims, a sign of a living and rooted devotion.
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary
The church of the Holy Rosary of Tejgaon is a treasure of faith in Bangladesh: founded by Portuguese Augustans in the tradition of 1677, Armenian tombstone custody of the 18th century and is today the largest Catholic parish in the country. Known among Bengali people like Japmala Rani, "Queen of the Rosary," was visited by Pope Francis in 2017.
"Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Queen who candles over Bangladesh, teach us to contemplate with you the mysteries of your Son and keep in your cloak those who call upon you.
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