3-021-722 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Trinity Church, Rangoon, British Burmah, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Bentley and Jackson. 'Rangoon now contains two Episcopal churches - Christ Church, in the cantonment, for the military, and Trinity Church (shown in our Engraving), for the civil community. It has also two Catholic churches; two Baptist churches, one for Europeans, the other for natives; one Armenian church; several mosques for Mussulmans; Hindoo shrines for that section of the inhabitants; two Joss-Houses for the Chinese; a synagogue for the Jews; a house dedicated to the Parsees, or fire-worshippers; and a number of pagodas, temples, and monasteries for the priests and laity of the Bhuddist faith, whose members are the majority of the population...[Trinity Church] was designed by Captain T. M. Williams, the executive engineer of the town division of public works...The church is in the ancient Gothic style of architecture, having a very handsome appearance, and forming a prominent object as seen from the deck of the steamer in ascending the Rangoon river. It was built in its present site, with reference to the convenience of the seamen belonging to the numerous vessels resorting to this port, as it is but a few steps distant from the main wharf'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.