The Rice Memorial Church, built in 1917, is located in the busy Avenue Road, Bangalore Pete. It is named after Rev. Benjamin Holt Rice, a missionary of the London Missionary Society (LMS), a Canarese scholar and a pioneer of education in the Bangalore Pete region. The church stands on the site of the London Mission Canarese Chapel built by Rev. Rice, which itself was built on the site of the first Canarese chapel built by William Campbell in 1834.[1][2][3][4][5] The church is a stone building in the European Classical style, with Tuscan columns, pediments and keystone arch windows.
