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A Knanaya folk song about Tobias describes his wedding as including Kerala paraphernalia, while a Cochin Jewish folk song describes Ruth dressed and groomed like a Malayali girl or Cochin Jewish bride. For both the Knanaya and Cochin Jews, these flourishes make Bible stories relevant to their current experience.
The area gets its name from a streetcar turnaround, or "loop", formerly located in the area. [2]Delmar Boulevard was originally known as Morgan Street. According to Norbury L. Wayman in his circa 1980 series History of St. Louis Neighborhoods, [3] the name Delmar was coined when two early landowners living on opposite sides of the road, one from Delaware and one from Maryland, combined the ...
The Archeparchy of Kottayam is a Syro-Malabar Church metropolitan archeparchy of the Catholic Church in India. [1] The archeparchy is exclusively for Knanaya faithful who claim to be the descendants of Syriac Judeo-Christians (early East Syriac Christians) who migrated from South Mesopotamia to Kodungallur in South India in 4th century A.D. [2]
The Knanaya, an ethnic group within the St. Thomas Christians, preserve ancient folk songs that were first documented in 1910 by Knanaya scholar P.U. Luke in his text Puratana Pattukal (Ancient Songs). The origins of these songs are unknown; they were collected by Luke from Knanaya families who had preserved them on palm leaf manuscripts.
The main religious institutions in Chingavanam is Mor Aprem Seminary, the head office of Knanaya Syrian Jacobite Church and home to the Chief Metropolitan of Knanaya Syrian Jacobite Church, Mor Severios Kuriakose. There are 3 Knanaya churches in Chingavanam; St.John's Dayara Church, St. John's Puthenpally and St. Mary's Shalem Church.
Margamkali is an ancient Indian round dance of the St. Thomas Christians community- based in Kerala state, mainly practiced by the endogamous sub-sect known as the Knanaya or Southist Christians. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The dance retells the life and missionary work of Thomas the Apostle , based on the 3rd-century apocryphal Acts of Thomas .
Thomas of Cana Received by Cheraman Perumal. The Thomas of Cana copper plates (Malayalam: Knai Thoma Cheppedu), or Knanaya copper plates, dated variously between 345 C.E. and 811 C.E., are a lost set of copper-plate grants issued by the unidentified Chera/Perumal king of Kerala "Co-qua-rangon" to Syriac Christian merchants led by Knai Thoma (anglicized as Thomas of Cana) in the city of ...
An ancient St Thomas Cross at Kottayam Knanaya Valiyapally. The East Syriac Churches of the St. Thomas Christians have accepted the Persian cross as their symbol. They call it the Nasrani Menorah [266] or Mar Thoma Sleeva (St. Thomas' Cross). [267] There are several interpretations for the St. Thomas Christian Symbol.