Sacred Heart Cathedral
A 1930 colonial commission where Italian church design quietly planted itself in central Delhi.
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Financed by British colonial officers and designed by architect Henry Medd after Italian models, this is one of New Delhi's oldest church buildings. The exterior pairs a white-pillared canopy with circular arcaded turrets; inside, polished stone floors and broad arches draw you toward a marble altar — and behind it, a large Last Supper fresco occupies the apse.
What to look for
- Circular arcaded turrets rising above the entrance porch on each side of the facade
- The Last Supper fresco behind the marble altar in the apse
- Polished stone floors and broad arches under the towering curved roof
On Bhai Vir Singh Marg near the south end of Connaught Place; major services at Easter and Christmas Eve (vigil one hour before midnight).
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More to see in Delhi
- Red FortThe ramparts where Jawaharlal Nehru raised India's flag on 15 August 1947 still host that ceremony every Independence Day.
- Qutb MinarSuccessive dynasties handed this tower off across 170 years — Aibak started it in 1199, Firuz Shah Tughlaq capped it with a cupola in 1368.
- Humayun's TombThe red-sandstone ancestor of the Taj Mahal — commissioned by an empress, designed by Persian architects, and finished a century before Agra.
- Jama MasjidShah Jahan built his imperial mosque at the highest point of Shahjahanabad — the Mughal capital — and it was regarded as a symbolic gesture of Mughal power across India.
- Lotus TempleTwenty-seven marble petals, grouped in threes, fold into a single hall where any person of any faith walks in without condition.
- India GateAround 13,300 names carved in stone — soldiers lost across Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and the Afghan frontier.