Cochin Tirumala Devaswom, also called Gosripuram is the biggest and most important socio-religious institution of Gowda Saraswat Brahmins of Kerala, India.

The temple is situated at Cherlai in the heart of Mattancherry town in Cochin area which is one of the earliest settlements of GSBs in Kerala.

In 1568, with the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire and coercive conversions to Christianity by the Portuguese, the Gowda Saraswatha Brahmins migrated from Goa to Kochi.

Gowda Saraswata Brahmins (Locally known as Konkanies) since their forefathers came and settled down in cochin during 1560 A.D from Goa, In fear of the mass conversion policy brought up by Portuguese there.

The Vighraha or idol of Lord Venkateshwara was installed in the Cochin Temple according to legend originally belonged to the Vijayanagara ruler named Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya who had usurped throne in 1472 A.D.

But As fate would have it, just at the time of the signal expected to be heard, few crows flew over the Dundhubhi with twigs and the twigs was accidentally dropped on the Dundhubhi making a sound which was mistaken for the signal given by the lord, and the installation took place, which was found to be inauspicious time, only when the king heard the real drum beat later and realized his mistake.

Swami Vijayeendra Thirtha of Kumbakonam Math while on tour of visiting pilgrim centers halted near the neglected well where the Venkateshwara idol was lying.

Mala Pai expressed his desire to Swamiji that the Idol of Shree Venkateshwara should be handed over to him for the worship of the deity here at Goshripuram for the Mahajanams.

Later a Temple was constructed for the lord and Swami Sudhindra Thirtha of Kumbakonam Math (Successor of Vijayendra Thirtha) performed the First Prathista of Lord Venkateshwara at Cochin in the Year 1599 A.D. in the Lunar month of Chaithra on Pournami Day when the moon was moon was in conjunction with Chitra Star.

The Houses of Konkanies were plundered and markets were looted and the community fled with the Vighraha of Venkateshwara to Udayaperur nearby Tripunithara for safety.

The year 1791 was marked by the terrible persecution of the Konkanis at the hands of Raja Rama Varma IX (Sakthan Thampuran).

The ruler of Cochin massacred a large number of Konkani merchants, including Dewaresa Kini, on 12 October 1791.

The Raja ordered the execution of three of the guardians of the Thirumala Devaswom Temple because they refused to yield any part of the treasures belonging to the shrine.

The persecuted Konkanis then fled southward to Thuravoor and Alappuzha (Alleppey) in the Kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor (Travancore), with the murti of Sri Venkateshwara.

Sakthan Thampuran, and then his successors, made vain efforts to bring the deity back to Cochin but were repulsed by the Maharajas of Travancore who had come to believe that their kingdom prospered because of the presence of the murti and of the Konkani merchants.

In 1853, when Kerala Varma IV reigned in Cochin, the Konkani community finally agreed to return, and brought back the murti on 7 February 1853.