Syro-Malabar Church
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The Syro-Malabar Church, also known as the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church / Edta Qatholiqi D’Malabar Suryaya, is an Eastern Catholic church based in Kerala, India. It is a sui iuris particular church in
Altar of a Syro Malabar Catholic Church
Rite of Renewal of Holy Leaven (Malka)
The Mystery of Crowning during a Syro-Malabar wedding
Mar Raphael Thattil, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church since 2024, clad in liturgical vestments
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