Place · hill-fort town · India
Medak
The historic town in Medak district, Telangana, 97 kilometres from Hyderabad, with a layered Satavahana, Kakatiya, Vijayanagara, Qutb Shahi and Asaf Jahi urban heritage. The Medak Church (Church of South India, built 1914-24 by Rev. Charles Walker Posnett of the Wesleyan Methodist Mission) is one of the largest churches in India — a Gothic Revival stone structure with a 175-foot bell tower, modelled on Canterbury Cathedral. The 11th-century Chaya Someswara Shiva temple at Panagal and the 10th-century Nallagonda Fort are the chief medieval monuments. Modern Medak is the headquarters of the National Dairy Development Board's Mother Dairy Southern India operations. The 2016 Medak district reorganisation separated it from Sangareddy.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 18.050, 78.270
Connections (1)
- AnalogueLambasingi
Medak's cathedral was built as famine relief employment between 1914 and 1924 and is one of the largest churches in Asia; Lambasingi is a village known for recording frost. Both are here because this region is routinely described as a delta and is in fact a set of very different landscapes — coast, plateau, ghat highland — with very different histories on each.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Medak Cathedral”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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