By Ashok SP
St. George CSI Church at Pallikunnu, which was built by the British who came to the Peermede Kuttikkanam area with a plantation industry a century and a half ago. St. George CSI Church is a Gothic style church built by the British on the hill near Kuttikkanam, a hill station in Idukki district of Kerala, India. It is surrounded by mountains at an elevation of 2500 to 3500 ft above sea level. St. George CSI Church still writes old history. The Church attracts a large number of foreign and domestic tourists. The church was built in 1869 by the British. The land for the church measuring 15 acres and 62 cents was donated by the Travancore Maharani Rani Sethulakshmibai. The construction of the church was completed by Henry Baker Jr. and other plantation owners in 1862. It is in this cemetery that John Daniel Munroe, who was instrumental in planting tea in Munnar, was also buried.The cemetery here houses 34 tombs of people from England, Ireland and Scotland.This is the tomb of John Daniel Monroe’s horse. It is probably the only cemetery in the world where a horse was buried and a tomb was erected
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