St. Thomas’ Cathedral ( C.N.I ), Mumbai

This guide to St. Thomas' Cathedral in Mumbai opens with an abandoned building site sitting empty on Bombay Green for four decades, and the chaplain Richard Cobbe, who arrived in 1714 and preached a sermon to get the stalled project moving again. You'll hear how the finished church became the city's Zero Point, the spot from which every distance in Bombay was measured, and how the Churchgate neighborhood took its name from a gate that once stood beside it. Inside, memorial plaques still honor soldiers and sailors who never came home, including a captain killed off Ceylon in 1808.