St. Mary's Jacobite Soonoro Cathedral, Angamaly

St Mary's Jacobite Syrian Soonoro Cathedral, also known as Angamaly Cheriyapally, is a Jacobite Syrian church located in Angamaly City. Built in 1564 by Archdeacon Giwargis of Christ, it is one of the most prominent and ancient Syriac Orthodox churches in Kerala. In the seventeenth century it was the residence of Archdeacon Thomas Parambil, who eventually got consecrated as bishop Mar Thoma I. It was the seat of the Archdeacon and later the Malankara Metropolitans, the local heads of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church and hence held an important position in the Church for many centuries. ()