Schwartz Church

Constructed by the Danish missionary Christian Friedrich Schwarz in 1779, the church is a plain building with few distinctive features.

[1] John Flaxman an Italian sculptor who lived in London has sculpted this statue in 1807 on the request of King Serfoji II.

He has further recorded that the white marble statue bearing the images of the King Serfoji II and Father Schwartz was installed in the big church in small fort called Sivaganga Park.

[2] Within the precincts of the church is a 1797 sculpture of Schwartz on his death-bed with the Thanjavur Maratha king Serfoji II and the missionary Guericke beside him.

Schwartz used to live in a house to the north-west of the church, which has since been converted into a school.