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“Crosses of the Parish”
Harold Mendes

Crosses big and small dot many of the roads and by lanes of Mumbai. Many of these were erected during the Bubonic plague (1896) and the various epidemics which affected the people in the days gone by; and were built as thanksgiving memorials or as personal memorials. No written records exist about the crosses of our parish. Some of the oldest existing  crosses erected in the early years of the last century are the Bunderpakhadi Cross, the Miranda Cross on M.G.Road, Kandivli Village , the Mendes Cross, Meurin Street, Kandivli Village (renamed the Meurin Street Cross when the original wooden Cross was relocated to the compound of Marie Villa and a new concrete and marble cross was erected in its place in May 1999),  the Assumption Village Cross and the cross on the New Link Road at the entrance to Bunderpakhadi. There are also a few other private family crosses  
built later on.

The most magnificent of these was the immense concrete cross at the western end of the  Church compound built on a rock with 16 steps. Old timers 
will remember the glorious evenings spent sitting on the steps and watching the children run around and the adults playing cricket or football; and the recitation of the Angelus at the dot of 7 when the church bell tolled. The Rosary is still recited regularly at most of the crosses, especially during the month of May.

Assumption Village Crosses
ASSUMPTION VILLAGE MAIN CROSS
ASSUMPTION VILLAGE MAIN CROSS
FAMILY CROSS  ASSUMPTION VILLAGE
FAMILY CROSS - 1, ASSUMPTION VILLAGE
FAMILY CROSS ASSUMPTION VILLAGE
FAMILY CROSS - 2 , ASSUMPTION VILLAGE
FAMILY CROSS  ASSUMPTION VILLAGE
FAMILY CROSS - 3, ASSUMPTION VILLAGE

Bunderpakhadi Crosses
BUNDERPAKHADI CROSS
BUNDERPAKHADI CROSS
LINK ROAD CROSS BUNDERPAKHADI
LINK ROAD CROSS, BUNDERPAKHADI

Kandivli Vilage Crosses
FAMILY CROSS KANDIVALI VILLAGE
FAMILY CROSS, KANDIVLI VILLAGE
MARIE VILLA CROSS KANDIVALI VILLAGE
MARIE VILLA CROSS ( MEURIN STREET), KANDIVLI VILLAGE
MENDES CROSS KANDIVALI VILLAGE
MENDES CROSS ( MEURIN STREET), KANDIVLI VILLAGE
MIRANDA CROSS KANDIVALI VILLAGE
MIRANDA CROSS ( M G ROAD ) , KANDIVLI VILLAGE
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