History
The church is believed to have established in the 9th Century AD. Kadamattom church (Saint George Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church). There is no concrete evidence of the exact date of the establishment of the church. Some records date the church to 865 AD.
The church and the property was a gift by 'Karthas' the then prominent family of Kadamattom. One of the kid of the family caught by a disease which was neither identified nor cured by the local doctors. Mar Abo, the middle eastern monk from Egypt reached Kadamattom at the same time. He cured the disease and the Karthas were very happy and as a favor they provided the land and constructed the Church in its form as it is now.
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