St. George Orthodox Church, Cheppad

St George Orthodox Church, Cheppad

St. George Orthodox Church, Cheppad, Haripad in Kerala state of India, is popularly known as Cheppad Valiya Pally and is a pilgrim center of Malankara Orthodox Church. The church is also the resting place of Cheppad Philipose Mar Dionysius, Malankara Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church who lived in the mid 19th century. The 800 year-old murals in the Church exhibit Christian traditional paintings.