Once dilapidated British era building is now a hipster building
Post Date – 11:59 PM, Sat – 12/10/22
Bible House in Secunderabad translates, publishes and distributes scriptures
Hyderabad: The Bible House is an iconic landmark of Secunderabad with a new luxury building equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. The dilapidated British period building has given way to a new G 4 storey building.
The Bible House was first built and opened in the city on December 7, 1939. The Secunderabad chapter started in 1936 as a branch of the Madras Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society and later transformed into the Secunderabad Auxiliary which translated the Bible into English, Urdu and Persian.
It was later changed to the Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary Army in 1951, and with the formation of Telangana State, the Telangana Auxiliary Army was formed on 2 February 2016.
Bible House is mainly engaged in the translation, publishing and distribution of the Bible. “One of the main jobs is the translation of the Bible into different languages,” said Telangana assistant secretary Rev. John Bessie Paul.
Work on the new building project began in April 2018 and the new building was inaugurated on December 7 this year, the same day it was first inaugurated in 1939.
“It’s not the structure, it’s the soul. There’s something here. So, you can interpret it in your own way. I’m moved by this place,” said Rev. John Basy Paul.
The new building has a hall for 120 people and an acoustically designed conference room, as well as open spaces for events. It also has a showroom with Bibles in different languages, which will be on sale from December 14th to 20th.
As a means of maintaining the organization, Telangana Auxiliary has drawn up plans to lease out the first, second and third floors of the new building, including halls and meeting rooms for people to hold meetings.
Telangana Auxiliary has embarked on a project to translate the Telugu Bible into Roman English, which will end in March 2023. “We want to make the Bible available to people in a language they can read and understand. I see this transliteration project as our effort to preserve not only the faith, but the language,” said Rev. John Basy Paul.
After providing free audio and Braille Bibles for the visually impaired, we are also working to provide sign language Bibles for the hearing and speech impaired.
