Church of Our Lady of Light (Luz Church)
Sixteenth-century Portuguese church with gilded altars and a powder-blue painted ceiling.
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This guide to the Church of Our Lady of Light in Mylapore, Chennai, follows the people who have worked on it, from Portuguese Franciscan friars in a forest clearing in the early fifteen hundreds to a parish crew under a screen of thatch in twenty nineteen. It touches the light that, by tradition, brought the friars ashore, the Tamil name locals gave their chapel, and the armies that left it needing repair. Start outside, facing the front wall, before stepping in.
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