There were two or three dilapidated shepherd's huts and a small "Hanuman temple" situated on the Jakhoo Hill.

The Europeans sought permission on the Raia of Keonthal, from whose state much of simla was later carved out, to build residences.

Captain (later Major) Charles Kennedy was the Political Agent of the British Government posted in these hill states.

Later Lord Amherst, the Governor General came to Simla for a summer trip in the year 1827 and stayed in the Kennedy House.

Built in the neo-Gothic style in 1857 to serve the largely Anglican British community in what was formerly called Simla, Christ Church is situated on The Ridge.

On September 11, 1918, Guy Gibson, leader of Operation Chastise, the famous "Dambusters Raid" of 1943, was christened here.

[2] Christ Church survived the 20th-century partition and the subsequent political upheavals on the Indian subcontinent.