St. George Orthodox Church is the biggest church in

Chungathara Chungathara is a village panchayat in Nilambur Taluk in Malappuram district, Kerala, India. It is one of the smallest gramapnachayat in Kerala. It is surrounded by Western Ghats. Geography Two rivers, Chaliyar and Punnappuzha, pass throug ...

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

, India. It was built before 1960. It is part of the

Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) or simply as the Malankara Church, is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in Devalokam, near Kottayam, India. The church serve ...

and is located within the Diocese of Malabar; in 2024 the pastor is Father Mathew Vattiyanickal. Malabar's biggest Orthodox convention organised by this church every year in January lasts for eight days, the conventions end with 5-inmel Qurbana approximately 10000 people attending the Qurbana.

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