Later, the Songpi cum "Churachandpur" village served as the headquarters of the Christian missionary organisation, North-East India General Mission (NEIGM).

The area around the old headquarters is called the Mission Compound and listed in the census as a separate village.

[1] Songpi is 6 km west of the Churachandpur Town on the Tipaimukh Road (National Highway 2).

[2][3] Songpi was also at a strategic height overlooking the valley leading to the Thangjing Hill, and used as the location of an Assam Rifles post.

In 1921, Gasper organised a feast to welcome back the labour corps workers that returned from World War I, to which Maharaja Churachand Singh was invited.