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The Triennial Conference of the Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India (later renamed the United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India – UELCI), which met at Guntur in 1926, felt the requirement for a religious College for the Lutheran Churches in India. On July 6, 1927, when such a College began, just understudies from TELC took a crack at the main godliness class. A late spring castle purchased in 1859 by the Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Mission from an Indian Raja, turned into the Center right off the bat. Minister Johannes Sandegren, the main Principal of the College, named it Gurukul, which means a Guru (instructor) living respectively with his Sishyas (supporters). 

Despite the fact that it was arranged at an all-India level it was uniquely in July 1931 that the United Lutheran Theological College (Gurukul) was set up with understudies and staff from South Andhra Lutheran Church (SALC), Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church (AELC), Church of Sweden Mission (CSwM), Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Mission (LELM), Danish Missionary Society (DMS) and the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church (TELC). Dr. Frolich of LELM was made the head of this United Lutheran Theological College. 

In 1953, Gurukul got another existence with a more extensive cooperation of the Lutheran Churches as was named as Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute. The College was then subsidiary to the Senate of Serampore College for Graduate and Postgraduate Studies. Dr. Sigfrid Estborn turned into its Principal. At that point Gurukul converged with the United Theological College, Bangalore and Serampore College, West Bengal in 1971. From that point on, Gurukul turned into a middle for proceeding and augmentation instruction for the holy places in India. 

The reviving of Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.) learns at Gurukul by the twentieth Triennial Conference held at Madras in 1984 empowered the restoring of the customary BD learns at Gurukul from June 1985. "A Bold Theological Vision" turned into the foundation of scholastic exercises of the College. In 1987, Master of Theology (M.Th.) considers was presented in two branches – Christian Theology and Religions. In fifteen years, new branches – Old Testament, New Testament, History of Christianity, Communication, Women's Studies and Missiology were included. By 1999, with the endorsement of the Senate of Serampore College, Doctor of Theology (D.Th.) program in Christian Theology initiated. Old Testament, Religions, Communication and were later included.