Malayattoor is a village in Aluva taluk around 15 km (9 mi) north-east of Angamaly in Ernakulam District in the state of Kerala in South India.

Located 40  km from Kochi, the Malayatoor Kurishumdy church is situated atop the 609 m high Kurishumudy.

[citation needed] Malayattoor is part of the Malayattoor-Neeleeswaram Panchayat[2] (Local governing body) of Ernakulam district.

The jurisdiction of this division covers the greater part of Ernakulam district including the urban-suburban area and adjoining forests unto boundary of Tamil Nadu.

Eeta St. Thomas Ulavuthurai Bhalevadivi Basu Maniyanpilla Adhava Maniyanpilla Aparichithan Chinthamani Kolacase Orma Mathram Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy Pulimurugan Puli saira narasimha reddy Brothers Day Kannur Squad Nearest railway station Angamaly for Kalady Cochin International Airport is about 18 kilometres from Malayattoor.

Oral tradition says that while travelling through Malayattoor, faced with hostile natives, he fled to the hilltop where he is said to have remained in prayer and that he left his foot prints on one of the rocks.

Pilgrims going up the hill to call out incessantly "Ponnum Kurishu Muthappo, Ponmala Kayattom", meaning "O Patriarch of the Golden Cross!

Anyone would be moved at the sight of an ardent but the simple faith of a Tamil pilgrim, a usual scene on the mountain.

Dr. Soosa Pakiam the "Archbishop of Trivandrum, "Muthappan" the name by which the devotees invoke St. Thomas on the mountain, may have come from Tamizakam.

A good number of pilgrims that visit Kurisumudy and seek Muthappan's blessings is from Tamil Nadu.

Later on the hunters went to the mountain for hunting.While they stayed in the night they saw a glittering sign of cross on the rock.Out of curiosity they struck there with their rude weapons.