St. Andrew's Church

This guide to St. Andrew's Church in Mumbai starts with a strange twice-yearly event: on the equinox, a beam of sunlight enters a small round hole above a statue on the facade and travels the length of the nave. It traces the church's construction by Jesuits in 1575, a 1966 renovation that left the window untouched, and the local man Carlisle Curry, who documented the alignment and published his findings in 1989. A wealthy, unnamed woman funded the original building, and a cyclone tore the roof off in 1618. Look up at the small circle cut into the stone above the statue of Saint Andrew.