SRINAGAR, India -- Farooq Ahmad Gilkar, a senior restoration expert and mason here in India's mostly Muslim Kashmir region, was overwhelmed by the opportunity he was presented with not so long ago -- bring back the majesty of St. Luke's Catholic Church, a 125-year-old structure that had been left rotting for decades.
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Christmas in Kashmir: Muslim artisans help restore Catholic church
One of the restorers' ancestors built the Gothic gem back in the 1880s