St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Kolenchery

St. Peter's and St. Paul's Orthodox Church
St. Peter's and St. Paul's Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Religion
Affiliation	Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
District	Ernakulam
Province	Kerala
Location
Location	Kolenchery, Muvattupuzha, India
Architecture
Type	Church
Completed	9th century CE (7th Century in Malayalam Calendar)
Direction of façade	West

St. Peter's and St. Paul's Orthodox Syrian Church or 'Kolenchery Church' (Malayalam: കോലഞ്ചേരി പള്ളി) is a Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church church situated in Kolenchery, in Ernakulam, Kerala, India. It was built by Thankan Mappila of the Kolenchery House in 9th century CE (7th century in Malayalam Calendar).^[1]

Due to the dispute between the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, the church was non-functional for few years and functioned as shared church from 1995. In 2006 a Jacobite member of the Kolenchery Church filed a suit over the administration of the church. The case proceeded from the lower courts and reached the Supreme Court of India. On 3 July 2017 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and the church has since been governed by the constitution of 1934.^[2]