St. Thomas Cathedral, Pala

It serves as the mother church of the Syro-Malabar Diocese or Eparchy of Palai ( Eparchia Palaiensis) which was created in 1950 through the bull "Quo Ecclesiarum" of Pope Pius XII.

But the royal dynasty of the Meenachil Kartha (karthavu) asked them to bring two more families.

He was a chief trader and agriculturist of the land and by the last decade of the 17th century a mukalappada from Tamil Nadu set fire to the church.

As the land where the old church stood was owned by Ittan Mappilai himself, he also had spent the expenses of reconstruction by himself.

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