Begum Sumru's Basilica of Our Lady Of Graces, in Sardhana, near Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.
As you are about to leave Meerut along the road to Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee and Dehra Dun, you see a sign board on your left with Sardhana written on it in bold type. It stands there to indicate the road that turns off to a town 22 kms away. The road to Sardhana is tarred and for the most part shaded by trees on either side. After 16 kms you cross the broad Ganges canal built in 1848. Then the road turns right, and as it does, you see the church of Sardhana in the distance. On the side of the road, to the right of you, you see a small canal that was dug many years ago by the Begum of Sardhana, as an outlet for the water that used to flood the lower part of Sardhana during the monsoon.
As you are about to enter Sardhana, with the church dwarfing all the buildings around it, if you look to your left, you will notice large monuments in Muslim art, about two hundred yards away. This is the catholic graveyard, now under the care of the Archaeological Department, and within whose sacred ground, the remains of many, connected with the Begum, lie buried under large monuments erected to their memory.
To your right, as you enter Sardhana, is a tarred road that comes from Daurala, a town famous for its sweets. Barely 15 kms away, this is the closest railway station. Many find it more convenient to come to Daurala by train and from there catch a bus for Sardhana. Buses run every hour. But on the other hand the Meerut-Sardhana route, though 22 kms has a bus service every half hour.
Source - Wikipedia
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