Padres Santos Chapel
Agra, India

The Padres Santos Chapel is a mausoleum chapel built by Christian missionaries on land granted by Akbar (r. 1556-1605). He invited them from the Jesuit missions in Goa, to serve as educators and advisers to the court and to minister to foreign residents in Agra. The chapel stands in the Christian burial place known as the Martyr's Cemetery, and is believed to have been a mausoleum for Khwaja Martinus, an Armenian, or for the priests martyred in 1633. Priests from various nations including Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Holland, and Italy are known to be interred in the chapel.

Location

Agra, India

Associated Names

Part of Site

Events

1611

Variant Names

Kwaja Martinus tomb
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Martyr's tomb
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Site Types

funerary
religious