Saint Thomas Mount

So we went where Saint Thomas is supposed to have lived for some time: Saint Thomas Mount in Chennai.

From the wikipedia article:

St. Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Christ and believed to be the first ever Christian missionary to set foot on Indian soil, is associated with Chennai. He is supposed to have visited India in the first century A.D and died in Chennai. He supposedly set up a church near the southern shoreline and made a small hillock his home. Legend has it that he used to walk to the church - a distance of over 15 kilometers - and back everyday through what was then, a menacing jungle. The names of the two suburbs in Chennai, Santhome and St. Thomas Mount, have cemented this link.

It was not particularly exciting...



... But we took some pictures anyway: