Saint Thomas Church

Eight Protestant denomination in churches got together to make a single church in the name of St Thomas who was a carpenter .After a 6 month of research and attending numerous church services from shanty towns to make shift churches in richer areas the concept of St Thomas church evolved. It was started in 1990 and finished in 1993.
Located on Hospital Road G-7-2, Islamabad Saint Thomas Church was designed in conjunction with local practice and material.
St Thomas’ Church attempts to define an appropriate architectural language for a church. It draws inspiration from the traditional brickwork.

The initial assumption, particularly from the Pakistani part of the congregation, was that the new church of St Thomas should be Victorian Gothic, the style in which so many churches had been built by the British. The final design is recognizably a church – it has for example a broadly cruciform plan – but the language of the building draws heavily on the Moghul tradition in its use of patterned brickwork, and attains a greater sense of rootedness in the dominant culture as a result
A large Hall sits under the church itself, accessed from the rear of this steeply sloping site, and a two storey house sits to the side dividing the site into two external spaces. It is a part of the Anglican Communion and is loosely affiliated with the Anglican Diocese of Manchester. A warm red coloured brick structure of indeterminable age dates back to the 1980s. It looks slightly out of place given the monolithic concrete buildings nearby, most of which appear to suffer from a lack of care

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