Parumala - a small settlement located on the same island on the river Pampa, which is located in Pattanamtitta in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The town is especially famous for its Christian holy places. So on its territory are located the Syrian Orthodox Church, as well as Parumala Thirumeni - Tomb of St. Gregory, one of the most revered Christian saints of India, which is located on the territory of the orthodox Indian Malankara Church. In Parumale year, the first and second day of November, held a religious festival Ormapperunnal, which attracts a huge number of pilgrims from around the world.

The biggest attraction of the town is, of course, the building of the Syro-Malankara Church - an independent Eastern Orthodox Church, which was established by the Indian Christian community of Apostle Thomas, which was organized even in the I century. The church used East Syrian Rite, because that's what the Assyrian Eastern Church, until the XV century, sent in Kerala their metropolitans and bishops. But, after the intervention of the Portuguese, the church gradually romanized, which led to serious disagreements within the community, which lasted many centuries, and only to the XX century, namely in 1930, the Syro-Malankara Church was finally formed by joining the Catholic Rome. In 2005, the organization has received the official status of the Supreme Archbishopric.

The building of the church is a snow-white round, futuristic structure, topped with a large cross and decorated windows in the shape of doves. Its diameter is about 39 meters, and at the same time it can take up to 2,000 worshipers. The base of the church was laid in 1995 on the site of the old building, which was built a hundred years earlier - in 1895.