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Serampore was described as the best-built and best-kept European town in India. But in the narrow lanes, further away from the riverfront, the town’s poor people lived in straitened circumstances. They dwelled in small clay houses or bamboo sheds and were often plagued by floods, deceases, and starvation.
- Serampore College
Founded in 1818 by British missionaries from the Baptist...
- The Danish Cemetery
The History of Serampore / The Danish Cemetery ; The Danish...
- Denmark Tavern
Restoration of The Denmark Tavern Realdania has financed the...
- The Serampore Initiative
The National Museum of Denmark’s large-scale efforts in...
- The Danish Trading Post
In 1777, Serampore came under direct administration of the...
- The Jail
The Danish administration in Serampore was responsible for...
- Serampore College
Serampore (also called Serampur, Srirampur, Srirampore, Shreerampur, Shreerampore, Shrirampur or Shrirampore) is a city in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Srirampore subdivision.
Jul 1, 2022 · Abstract. Serampore, a small town of West Bengal, today virtually a suburb of Kolkata, has an unusual history and heritage as a Danish trading post/colony between 1755 and 1845. Creating a bustling, well-organised town, the Danes introduced various reforms which prepared the nineteenth-century awakening in Bengal.
Serampore mission did not see preaching the Bible, leading Bible class, or making members of church made much difference, but the difference in the attitude to become Christian can only come when the society can understand and learn in their own culture. The Serampore Trio's contribution to the Indian soil is immense, especially to Bengal.
- Ajith George
What were the mission models that Carey and his company at Serampore worked from, worked with, worked at, and then bequeathed to the so-called modern missionary movement? In what senses was their mission in Bengal, 200 years ago, part of a unique period of transition between contrasting eras of Protestant mission history?
- A. Christopher Smith
- 1992
Sep 1, 2011 · When Englishman William Carey (1761–1834) arrived in India in 1793, it marked a major milestone in the history of Christian missions and in the history of India. Carey established the Serampore Mission—the first modern Protestant mission in the non-English-speaking world—near Calcutta on January 10, 1800. 1 From this base, he labored for ...
Founded in 1818 by British missionaries from the Baptist church, Serampore College is one of Asia’s very first institutions of modern higher education. In 1827, the university was granted the authority to confer academic degrees by the Danish King Frederik VI.
