Saint Antony's Syro-Malabar Church, Ollur

The St. Antony's Syro-Malabar Catholic Forane Church is located at Ollur, Thrissur city in Kerala, India.

[3] The church was blessed on 13 June 1722, by the Mar Antony Pimentel, Metropolitan and Gate of All India or known as Kodungallur Bishop with Johann Ernst Hanxleden famously known as Arnos Paathiri.

[4] Beatified people Euphrasia Eluvathingal, Maria Theresa Chiramel and Kuriakose Elias Chavara have visited and stayed in the church.

Every inch of space in the church is decorated, under both western and indigenous influences, with the highest achievements of the painter, the sculptor, the ceramics worker, the carpenter, the goldsmith, the bronze artisan, or the architect - using every media known or imaginable like gold, silver, iron, bronze, wood, ivory, stone - including laterite, granite, and precious stones.

There are more than five thousand images of angels in the church, in fresco, mural, wood, plaster, stone, metal and ivory.

The paintings of the church cover an area of thousands of square feet and are considered one of the most beautiful ones in entire Kerala.

[6][7] The seven storey Belfry or Bell tower (125 feet [38 m]) of the church is said to be the tallest structure in South India when it was constructed.

In the same year, on 23 July, Kerala Police fired at the St. Anthony's Forane Church on the part of Liberation Struggle.

A 1938 photo of St. Anthony's Forane Church, Ollur , photo published in the Cochin Government Royal War Efforts Souvenir
An inside view of the St. Anthony's Forane Church, Ollur
The plaque inside the St. Anthony's Forane Church for the memorial of Liberation Struggle
Church dedicated for the dead and cemetery in the compound of St Antony's Forane Church, Ollur