The Saint Lukes church - one of the oldest in Kashmir - opened for public on Thursday, three decades after it was shut down. The development comes days ahead of Christmas.
The church is located near the Chest Diseases Hospital on the foothills of the Shankaracharya hillock in Dalgate area of Srinagar. A prayer was held on Wednesday, a day before its official opening.
The renovation of 125-year-old church was undertaken by Jammu and Kashmir tourism department under the "Smart City" project.
Church official Kennedy David Rajan said that the Christian community is happy to see the Church being re-opened after its renovation.
Grace Paljor, principal of a private school in Srinagar, said the community was glad that more than century-old church has been restored to its old glory, and prayers held there after three decades.
The once buzzing church saw decline in number of worshippers in the early 1990s, when violence erupted in Kashmir.
The minuscule Christian population in the Valley usually visit the Holy Family Catholic Church, a Roman Catholic Church, at M A Road, and the one at Church Lane in Srinagar for Sunday mass and Christmas mass.
There are churches in Baramulla and Gulmarg as well in the valley.
