St Andrew's Church, Bandra

St Andrew's Church stands on the seashore at Bandra and is among the oldest churches in Mumbai. Portuguese Jesuits, to whom Bandra was assigned in 1568, originally built it in 1575. It came through a cyclone that blew off its roof in 1618 and a single closure in the 1740s, at the time of the Maratha invasion, and from 1739, when the older Church of St Anne was blown up, until St Peter's went up in 1853 it was Bandra's only church. The façade was extended in 1966, with care taken to keep the original look.

Inside, the high altar rises nearly to the roof, and the side altars, pulpit and hanging panels of the Resurrection and the Assumption date from the 16th century. A round window above the statue of St Andrew lets the rising sun into the church. The compound holds a stone cross cut from a single block, moved from St Anne's, and a small museum occupies the choir loft.