Aranattukara Church

Aranattukara Church is considered to be one of the biggest church in Thrissur. More than 2000 christian families are staying here. Church Perunal is celebrated on first week of January on every year. This is one of the famous festival in thrissur city.

Communities


1) CLC
2) KCYM
3) SVDC
4) Amma Communion
5) ALTER Boys and Girls

Total Aranattukara is divided into 4 regions

1) Laloor Region
2) Infant Jesus Region
3) St. Thomas Region
4) Calvery Region

History

Rama Varma Thampuran, the King of the Cochin Kingdom divided the land and gave it for two Christian settlements for worship in order to avoid the dispute among them. Both groups have their own churches known as "KIZHAKKE PALLI and PADINJARE PALLI" till they build their common church named ST. THOMAS CHURCH during 1970's

Named after the Apostle St Thomas. The church has plenty of stories behind it. Of these the famous are the unification of the east and west churches. This is one of the biggest church in Asia. & it can accommodate around 5000 ppl at a time. This church was built from the Statue of St Sebastin which was found by the the boatmen who were on the trip to cochin for their supplies.

Aranattukara my home town- God's own Country

Aranattukara is a highly populated Roman Catholic (Syro Malabar Reeth) dominated area of Thrissur City, Kerala, India. It is situated purly in heart of the Thrissur City. Statistics says that nearly 2000 Christian families are staying at aranattukara. We have only 1 km distance to Railway station, KSRTC Bus Stand, Private Bus Stand, Hospitals, and City Center, Center Point and M.G.Road etc.

Schools

We have 3 schools in our place
1) Tharakans High School (Boys Only).
2) Infant Jesus High School (Girls Only).
3) Govt UP School( Boys & Grils)

College.

One of the Famous college named Dr. John Matthai Centre is situated in Aranattukara only. It is one of the Well know Drama school in Kerala.

History

Aranattukara takes its name from 'Ara Nattukara' with 'Ara' = half, 'Nadu' = land and "Kara" = banks/shore. This area is half water and half land. The city was also known as "ARA-NATTU-KARA", with Ara meaning "Godown", Nadu meaning Place, and Kara meaning banks of a river.

During the regime of Rama Varma Thampuran, the King of the Kochin Kingdom, maintained his administrative palace at Thrissur. Thrissur became the most important business centre of central Kerala and a successful port. The well known puthen thodu or puthen chal was the main way to Thrissur from Kochi. "VANJIKOLAM" was the gateway to Thrissur City. Ara Nattukara was the place for Ara or Godown.