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Fig: Csi Garrison Wesley Church - Secunderabad CSI Garrison Wesley Church (built-in 1853) located in Trimulgherry is among the oldest churches in Secunderabad under the auspices of the Protestant Church of South India (CSI) within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Medak� Situated in Lal Bazar civilian area of the Secunderabad Cantonment, the CSI Garrison Wesley Church is in the near vicinity of the Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME), and the church has continued to attract not only its regular worshipers but also new visitors from the nearby military stations of the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force through its regular Sunday Mass as well as its annual Good Friday, Easter and Christmas programs�

The Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society set foot in the erstwhile Hyderabad State in 1878, the missionaries led by Henry Little, William Burgess, and the Indian Evangelist Benjamin Wesley who pioneered the spread of the Gospel and helped in establishing churches in areas northward of Hyderabad winning of new converts to the fold of Christianity�

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While this was so, the British Indian Army had stationed itself in Secunderabad by 1798 itself and there were already Christians of British origin and among them were Wesleyan Methodists who had already begun worshiping following the Wesleyan Methodists traditions and it was the military troops who were led by a Presbyter had laid a cornerstone of the church in 1853�

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