St Louis Church, Mundamveli

The "1st church" was originally constructed by the Marthoma Christians of Maanaanjeri Kunnu near the Arabian Sea in the "9th century".

That church was dedicated to "St. Mary". That church was locating 4km from the south-west location of today's St. Michael's church Maanaasseri .

At that time there were only three parishes in Kochi: north-east side - "Mattanchery" Our Lady Of Life Church, east side -"Edakochi" St. Lawrence Church and "Our Parish church".

In the "14th century" the church was destroyed by the sea and that church still locating is "under water".

In "1498" Portuguese missionaries are arrived in the land of kochi. They were built a new church for parishioners and they changed the name to "St. Louis" It was the "2nd Parish church" of Mundamveli. During the time of Portuguese, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin was erected under Padrovado as the second Catholic diocese in India after Goa in the year 1557. The Roman catholic church in its Latin rite was predominant at that time in Cochin and elsewhere under the Portuguese .

In the "17th century" the church was again "destroyed by the sea"

Then In the "19th century" another church was established near the Arabian Sea. But in "1808" it was burnt by the soldiers of the king of Kochi. After that incident, in "1850" parishioners built a small church in Cemetery. This is the "4th church". Today This church is presently using as the cemetery. At that time the parish priest vicar was very confused about these kind of incidents and parish priest vicar was suffered how to overcome from that situation. But In his mind it was very difficult to find a place for build a new parish church.during that period government offered the field of Mundamveli for built a new church.The said name changing also happened when the biggest parish church was shifted from Maanaassery to Mundamveli. Since then Mundamveli St luis Church. What came to be popularly known a Temple And in "1868" The "5th parish church" was inaugurated

In "1997" the church was renovated for its "130th Anniversary". In many years earlier St. Louis Parish was the biggest parish in Kochi. Because 1) Chellaanam St. Sebastians' (1832) 2) Thoppumpady St. Sebastian's (1833)

3) Maanaassery St. Michael's (1870)
4) Kannamaly St. Antony's (1873)
5) Cheriyakadavu St.Joseph's (1965)
6) Chirackal St.Joseph's (1968)
7) Kaattiparambu St. Francis Assisi's (1980)
8) Santhome St. Thomas Apostle church (1990) these parishes were separation from Mundamveli parish.

The biggest celebration of this church is the feast of St. Jacob (called Santhyapunnyalan by the people of Mundamveli, Maanaasseri Saudi), celebrated every "December 30th". Thousands of believers coming from different parts of India

Other feasts celebrated include:

• St. Sebastian - January, 2nd Sunday
• St. Francis Xavier - 1 May Sunday
• St. Francis of Assisi - 1 August Sunday
• St. Louis - 21 June
• Sacred Heart - June, 2nd Sunday
• Our Lady Of Nativity - 8 September
• Infant Jesus - October, 1st Sunday
• Our Lady of Presentation - 21 November
• St. Teresa - October 1

• St.Louis Church – Mundamvely at catholicchurches.in