Country India Founded 1928 Opened 1936 Function Church | Denomination Roman Catholic Functional status Active Status Parish church Archbishop Oswald Gracias | |
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Location Santa Cruz (Mumbai), Mumbai Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay Similar Our Lady of Egypt Church, Holy Cross Church - Kurla, Cathedral of the Holy Name - M, Church of Our Lady of Dolours, St Joseph's Church - J | ||
Sacred Heart Church is located on S. V. Road in Santa Cruz (Mumbai), Mumbai. The church, founded in 1936, is a Grade III heritage structure. The church has 8,000 parishioners and is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay.
History
A small chapel, built around 1850, was used by the original East Indian villagers who were served by the St. Andrews Church in Bandra. Every Sunday a priest from Bandra would come to Santacruz and offer mass for Catholics residing in the traditional Gaothans (village). In the early twentieth century, many Catholics from Goa, Mangalore and Kerala began migrating to Bombay. These people settled in Santacruz since Bombay's traditional catholic localities like Colaba and Byculla were overcrowded. The Sacred Heart Church was completed in 1936 to cater to the spiritual needs of this growing population.