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1 The illuminated Christ Church on the eve of Christmas at Ridge in Shimla on Thursday night. Tribune photo: Amit Kanwar
Bhanu P Lohumi
Shimla, December 24
For the first time in the history of 151-year-old Christ Church on Ridge, a landmark of Shimla, the festival of Christmas would be celebrated sans midnight mass on Christmas Eve due to the COVID-19 pandemic and imposition of curfew from 10 pm to 6 am.
Devout Christians would not be seen heading for the church in biting cold wave conditions and tastefully decorated and illuminated church would not witness the midnight mass.
It is for the first time that no midnight mass will take place on Christmas Eve due at 151-year-old Christ Church on Ridge due to COVID-19 and services would be held in two phases tomorrow at 9:30 am and 11 am said priest of the Church Rev. Sohanlal.