Was Parumala – a small settlement located on the same island on the river Pampa, located in the district Pathanamthitta in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The town is primarily famous for its Christian shrines. So located on its territory of the Syrian Orthodox Church and Parumala Thirumeni – the Grave of St. Gregory, one of the most revered Christian saints of India, which is located on the territory of the Indian Orthodox Church of Malankara. In Parumala annually, the first and second of November, is a religious festival Gmappanel which is visited by huge number of pilgrims from all over the world.

The greatest attraction of the town is, of course, the building of the Syro-Malankara Church is an independent Eastern Orthodox Church, which was created by Indian Christian community of St. Thomas, which was organized in the first century. In the Church of the East Syrian rite, because it is the Eastern Assyrian Church, until the XV century, sent in Kerala their metropolitans and bishops. But, after the intervention of the Portuguese, the Church was gradually romanized as that has led to serious divisions 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 received official status as Supreme Archbishopric.

The building of the Church is a rounded snow-white, futuristic structure, surmounted by a large cross, and decorated Windows in the shape of doves. Its diameter is about 39 meters, and at the same time it can accommodate up to 2,000 worshippers. The Foundation of this Church was laid in 1995 on the site of the old building, which was built one hundred years earlier in 1895.