Saint Thomas Christians
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The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Marthoma Suriyani Nasrani, Malankara Nasrani, or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians in the stat
Mar Thoma Cross
Icon of Mar Knai Thoma the Merchant
Tharisapalli Copper plate grant (9th century) – One of the reliable documentary evidences of the privileges and influence that Saint Thomas Christians enjoyed in early Malabar. The document contains signatures of the witnesses in Pahlavi, Kufic and Hebrew scripts. It is the oldest documentary evidence from India that attest the presence of a Persian Christian community in South India.
Catholic critical account of Saint-Thomas Christians in India, written by traveller and missionary Jordanus in 1329–1338 in Mirabilia Descripta
Mar Thoma Syrian Church
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The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, often shortened to Mar Thoma Church, and known also as the Reformed Syrian Church and the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, is an autonomous Oriental Protestan
Presentation of crozier during Mar Thoma bishopric ordination by Joseph Mar Thoma, with the assistance of other Mar Thoma, as well as CSI bishops Thomas Samuel and KG Daniel as co-consecrators
East Syriac Rite Liturgy of Addai and Mari
West Syriac Rite Liturgy of St James
Muziris, near the tip of India, in the Peutinger Table