St. George Orthodox Church, Cheppad

Haile Selassie gifted the church a couple of gold artifacts, which were recently stolen[when?]

The paintings are on the walls of the Madbaha (altar) of the Church, and show the events in the life of Jesus Christ from birth to ascension.

The archaeological department of Kerala says that the murals are approximately 600 years old and were drawn with the extracts of leaves and fruit.

shows the mixing of middle eastern Christian painting and Kerala's mural artwork.

The foreign missionaries suggested to reform the 'Qurbana norms' according to the Protestant standards, and to do away with the worship and prayer conducted for the dead, other suggestions included in raising of a fund to increase the salary of the priests, and giving ordination to only those priests who passed out from the Seminary and received the certificate from the Principal.

The Mavelikkara Padiyola was formulated in order to strongly resist the new reforms of the foreign missionaries.

Later on, Mar Dionysius gave up the position of Malankara Metropolitan to avoid a split in the church and retired from administrative matters.