Re: MMC1986 Doubting Thomas

No, I have no idea about all the churches and factions. Once I tried to read, but I was more confused than convinced at the end of the day.

        One speciality of Kerala was, it had contact with businessmen of spices who used sea route for travelling unlike rest of india. So it came in contact with judaism, christianity and Islam much earlier than rest of India. For example Mappilas, jews, syrian christians. But they rarely went out on sea on grand scalewith imperialism on mind unlike Tamilians, oriyans.

 

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:38 PM, karthik g <karvin302@gmail.com> wrote:

loki,

my 2 nayapaise contribution to this;

the syrian christians in kerala are termed as orthodox syrian christians, amongst them there are two major sects ,marthomites and jacobites

i think their practises are based on the old testament,in fact fort cochin has the oldest jewish syangogue in india(built in the 15th century) and is located in jew town! i happened to see that place in '02.there are a few jewish traders there too,mainly descendents of the jews who were ther in cochin to trade with spices

karthik