Akbar's Church
Roman Catholic church built with Mughal imperial patronage, the first of its kind in the empire.
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This guide to Akbar's Church in Agra follows three Jesuit priests who set out from Portuguese Goa in November fifteen seventy-nine on a journey to the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar. It traces the hospitality Akbar showed them, the religious debates he staged, and the land and funding he eventually gave for a church of their own, and it follows what became of that building under his grandson Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal. Look around at the worn walls still standing around you as you listen.
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