Chandor Church

Ever since I saw the church in Chandor I felt mesmerized by its serene presence, and the centrality of its location. It seems placed at the center of life in Chandor. I was very intent to take a picture, or in fact many, so that I can capture it and share it further, so that more can see its grand structure.

LIfe in Chandor (sounds shaan- dor) or Chandra (as the Konkani sound of it goes) revolves around the church here. Just facing the church is the local market where vegetable and fruit vendors have their stalls, who are flanked by those selling fish and meat on one side. I will take picture so the market in due course. On one of the roads there is the Panchayat office, and just before that and the church is the main market of the village, which has all sorts of shops, including a chemist, dry cleaners, general merchants, ATMs (two banks), bakers, hardware shop, beauty parlour, photocopier, and you name it. It is a little world by itself. The other side is Remy the vegetable vendor who operates the government shop for selling vegetables.

Chandor has a lot of history associated with it and in due course as I unravel it, I will share it further. It feels very quaint to be here, and I find it so appealing, that every scene that I am witness to, makes me appreciate it- but then, that is my general disposition and nothing to do with Chandor. I was so keen to capture this photo at night that we made a trip here post 11:30 one evening to take these shots, that I share here. Hope whoever sees it will like the shots and would want to leave a comment or remark. I anyways see it, the idea is to share with you, who stop by to read.

In case you know anything further about this church or its history or anything please feel free to share it, and I will put it up here for more to read and appreciate better.

The old and the new…mingle effortlessly here. Don’t miss the ICICI bank ATM’s board here 🙂

The name of the church is Nossa Senhora de Belem

Just a different shade and I thought why not put it here.

One variation of light got us this

another one, with the cross on top now visible

Upon doing a google search for the same, I found an interesting post by Rajan Parrikar and his blog that talks about the same church, though his picture is a daylight one. So why not share that too, to give a different perspective. Please take a look of that here. In fact he has done a bit more homework and written more details about the church than me, and it is really interesting to read what he shares. But since it is not my style to just lift something, I thought the best option was to create a link to his post, and let people read for themselves, since I have not done the legwork to dig out the details, he has.