Tharangambadi (Tranquebar)
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Tranquebar was acquired by the Danish as a colony in 1620.
Tranquebar was controlled by the British in 1801 due to the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, and restored to Denmark following the Kiel Peace in 1814. It was sold, along with the other Danish settlements in India, Serampore and the Nicobars, to Great Britain in 1845. Tranquebar was a busy port, but it lost its importance when the railway was opened to Nagapattinam.The first Protestant missionaries to set foot in India were two Lutherans from Germany, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Pluetschau, who began work in 1705 in the Danish settlement of Tranquebar. They translated the Bible into the local Tamil language, and afterwards into Hindustani. They made little progress at first, but gradually the mission spread to Madras, Cuddalore and Tanjore. Today bishop of Tranquebar is the official title of a bishop in the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church (TELC) in South India which was founded in 1919 as a result of the German Lutheran Leipzig Mission and Church of Sweden Mission. The seat of the Bishop, the Cathedral and its Church House ("Tranquebar House") is in Tiruchirappalli.
Moravian Brethren missionaries from Herrnhut, Saxony established the Brethren's Garden at Porayar near Tranquebar as a missionary center for a number of years. The Italian Catholic, Father Constanzo Beschi, who worked from 1711 to 1740, found himself in conflict with the Lutheran pioneers at Tranquebar, against whom he wrote several polemical works.The churches as well as the fort and the city gates are being restored for tourism.
தரங்கம்பாடியில்தான் இந்தியாவின் முதல் அச்சு இயந்திரத்தின் மூலம் பைபிள் அச்சிடப்பட்டது. டேனீஷ் காரர்களின் கோட்டை இன்றும் உள்ளது.
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Tranquebar was controlled by the British in 1801 due to the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, and restored to Denmark following the Kiel Peace in 1814. It was sold, along with the other Danish settlements in India, Serampore and the Nicobars, to Great Britain in 1845. Tranquebar was a busy port, but it lost its importance when the railway was opened to Nagapattinam.The first Protestant missionaries to set foot in India were two Lutherans from Germany, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Pluetschau, who began work in 1705 in the Danish settlement of Tranquebar. They translated the Bible into the local Tamil language, and afterwards into Hindustani. They made little progress at first, but gradually the mission spread to Madras, Cuddalore and Tanjore. Today bishop of Tranquebar is the official title of a bishop in the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church (TELC) in South India which was founded in 1919 as a result of the German Lutheran Leipzig Mission and Church of Sweden Mission. The seat of the Bishop, the Cathedral and its Church House ("Tranquebar House") is in Tiruchirappalli.
Moravian Brethren missionaries from Herrnhut, Saxony established the Brethren's Garden at Porayar near Tranquebar as a missionary center for a number of years. The Italian Catholic, Father Constanzo Beschi, who worked from 1711 to 1740, found himself in conflict with the Lutheran pioneers at Tranquebar, against whom he wrote several polemical works.The churches as well as the fort and the city gates are being restored for tourism.
தரங்கம்பாடியில்தான் இந்தியாவின் முதல் அச்சு இயந்திரத்தின் மூலம் பைபிள் அச்சிடப்பட்டது. டேனீஷ் காரர்களின் கோட்டை இன்றும் உள்ளது.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharangambadi
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Coordinates: 11°1'45"N 79°50'58"E
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- TELC Boy's High School 0.5 km
- St.Therasas convent. 0.6 km
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- Tharangambadi 0.6 km
- Tranquebar fort 0.8 km
- Athangarai(River bank) 0.9 km
- PUDHUPALAYAM 1 km
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