Old famous church constructed in the year 1876.The name of this old famous church is "Mar Yacob Burdhana Orthodox Syrian Church"...lot of peoples visit this chu The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, also known as the Indian Orthodox Church, is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church centred in the Indian state of Kerala. It is one of the churches of India's Saint Thomas Christian community, whic
h says that it has its origins to the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. The church is locally headed by the autonomous Catholicos; Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II became Catholicos of the East and the Malankara Metropolitan on 1 November 2010. Historically, the Saint Thomas Christians were under the single leadership of Arkidhyaquana (East Syrian term for ecclesiastical head with extensive administrative powers) and liturgically it was a part of the Church of the East centered in Persia. It was not necessary for the Malankara Church to oppose or adhere Nestorianism as they were outside Roman and Persian empire and the native Dravidian kings never interfere in their faith. The indigenous Eastern Church of Malabar /Kerala followed the faith and traditions handed over by Apostle St.Thomas and most of the early churches were named after St.Mary. During the period of Colonialism ie from 16th century the Portuguese Jesuits began forceful annexation of the community into the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church and in CE 1599 they succeeded in their attempt by Synod of Diamper. Resentment against these measures led the majority of the community under their Arkidhyaquana Thomas in swearing never to submit to the Portuguese in the Coonan Cross Oath in 1653. Roman supporters used this opportunity to call Malankara Nazranis as ‘Puthenkootukar’ (new tradition) and call themselves as ‘Pazhyakootukar’ (old traditionalists) for their 54 years of European relation. In fact, Latin rites introduced in Malankara by Menezes was much more strange and embarrassing than West Syrian rites for Malabar Christians who were genetically accustomed with Syrianism. Following the arrival of Bishop Gregorios Abdul Jaleel of Jerusalemin the Dutch period, Arkidhyaquana (Mar Thoma -I) forged a relationship with the West Syriac Orthodox Church and gradually adopted West Syrian liturgy and practices. Over time, however, relations soured between the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs and the local hierarchy, particularly after Patriarch Ignatius Peter IV (reigned 1872—1894) began demanding registered deeds for the transfer of properties. In 1912 a Synod in Malankara led by Canonical Patriarch Ignatius Abdul Masih II, (who had been controversially deposed by the Ottoman government),consecrated Mar Ivanios as Catholicos of the East, under the name Baselios Paulose I. The Antiochen group supported the supremacy of Patriarch, briefly reunited between 1958 and 1975, but attempts by church leaders and two Supreme Court decisions were unable to resolve the contention. The Indian Orthodox Church accepts the Miaphysite Christology of St Cyril of Alexandria and uses the Malankara Rite, a local variant of the West Syrian Rite. The members of the Church are known as Malankara Nazaranis or Marthoma Suriyanis.
