It was founded in the town of Abbottabad, British India, in what used to be part of Punjab, later the North West Frontier Province[1] in 1864.

[4] Its jurisdiction covered most of the Hazara region including Abbottabad itself, Haripur,[5] Mansehra and the Galyat hill tracts.

Before the foundation of this church, the local Christian community did not have recourse to a regular vicar or chaplain, and these services were provided occasionally by chaplains attached to various military regiments in the cantonment[7] or by officials deputed from time to time from Peshawar or Rawalpindi.

Regular services resumed only when the Revd Daniel Rashid, at Peshawar, was given additional visiting charge of Abbottabad and Hazara.

[12] He was later replaced by the Revd JH Hewitt in 1951[13] and then by a local curate, ZK Daniels, who was raised to the Chaplaincy in 1965.