The carvings, sculptures, symbolic icons and wall paintings are a blend of Middle Eastern, South Indian and European architecture.

The baptism stand of this church, is chopped out of a huge granite and it is about thousand years old.

Its wooden walls and sculptured ceiling, as well as its strong room, have with-stood the ravages of time.

A proud heritage of the church is the head circlets for the bride and the bridegroom on the occasion of their marriage.

Even though Christianity was rooted in this country from the 1st century onwards, there was no constitution or rules and regulations for the church.

[1][2] The church is home to a relic of Thomas the Apostle, which was brought from Mosul and given as a gift by the then Patriarch of Antioch.

[3] The church also contains tombs of Mor Kurilos Yuyakim from tur'abdin, Mor Ivanius Hidayatulla (Patriarchal Delegates of Malankara), Mor Gregorius Yuhanan the Patriarch of Jerusalem and relics of Parumala Mar Gregorios entombed at Parumala Church and Ignatius Elias III the Patriarch of Antioch entombed at Manjinikkara Church.

In 2017, the Supreme Court of India ruled in favour of the Orthodox faction in the century-old dispute on the ownership of the churches.