The Church of all Churches - Sardhana Basilica of our Lady of Graces
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2022-03-24
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Begum Sumru's Basilica of Our Lady Of Graces, in Sardhana, near Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
As you are about to leave Meerut along the road to Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee and Dehra Dun, you see a sign board on your left with Sardhana written on it in bold type. It stands there to indicate the road that turns off to a town 22 kms away. The road to Sardhana is tarred and for the most part shaded by trees on either side. After 16 kms you cross the broad Ganges canal built in 1848. Then the road turns right, and as it does, you see the church of Sardhana in the distance. On the side of the road, to the right of you, you see a small canal that was dug many years ago by the Begum of Sardhana, as an outlet for the water that used to flood the lower part of Sardhana during the monsoon.
As you are about to enter Sardhana, with the church dwarfing all the buildings around it, if you look to your left, you will notice large monuments in Muslim art, about two hundred yards away. This is the catholic graveyard, now under the care of the Archaeological Department, and within whose sacred ground, the remains of many, connected with the Begum, lie buried under large monuments erected to their memory.
Source - Wikipedia
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and [email protected].
As you are about to leave Meerut along the road to Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee and Dehra Dun, you see a sign board on your left with Sardhana written on it in bold type. It stands there to indicate the road that turns off to a town 22 kms away. The road to Sardhana is tarred and for the most part shaded by trees on either side. After 16 kms you cross the broad Ganges canal built in 1848. Then the road turns right, and as it does, you see the church of Sardhana in the distance. On the side of the road, to the right of you, you see a small canal that was dug many years ago by the Begum of Sardhana, as an outlet for the water that used to flood the lower part of Sardhana during the monsoon.
As you are about to enter Sardhana, with the church dwarfing all the buildings around it, if you look to your left, you will notice large monuments in Muslim art, about two hundred yards away. This is the catholic graveyard, now under the care of the Archaeological Department, and within whose sacred ground, the remains of many, connected with the Begum, lie buried under large monuments erected to their memory.
Source - Wikipedia
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and [email protected].
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