St.Mary's Orthodox Church, Maikave

Infobox Orthodox Church
show_name = Malankara (Indian) Orthodox Syrian Church


caption = St.Mary
founder = St. Thomas the Apostle
independence = Apostolic Era
recognition = Oriental Orthodox
primate= His Holiness Mar Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I
headquarters= Kottayam, Kerala
territory= India
possessions=
language=
population=
website= [http://www.malankaraorthodoxchurch.in/ Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]

This is the one of old church in Malabar Diocese.

The History of Maikave Church (Malankara Orthodox Church) begins with the history of settlers of Malabar, The 1930s witnessed the exodus of settlers from Travancore - Cochin area to Malabar The hard working agriculturists from these places left their native lands and settled in the virgin land of the hills and valleys of Kozhikode, Kannur and Wayanad Districts.

Unmindful of the vagaries of nature they toiled in the farmlands and occasionally longed for the church bells. They started establishing worshipping places here and small parishes developed.There are chappels in Unithram Kunnu, Chamora, Chundakunnu,Kattumunda, Kayalum para.

Malankara Sabha

* [http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7239884475673404089&hl=en Malankara Sabha History]

We face the east when we pray, It is because our church believes that the Second Coming of our Lord will be from the East. St. Mathew: 24:27 , for as lighting that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

We make the sign of the cross by touching the forehead first, then to chest to remember that our Lord came down from heaven to earth for our salvation and then moving from left shoulder to the right shoulder to remember that we children of the left by our sins are turned to the children of the right by the death of our Savior on the cross. We make the sign with the thumb and the first two fingers of the right hand joined together. We should bow our body and to make the sign whenever we say Crucified for us and also at the time of remembrance of the death of our Lord in the Nicene Creed.