St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Changanassery
St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral, also known as Valiyapally, is the cathedral of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Changanassery and also a Marian pilgrimage centre in Kerala, India.Photo: Gashwin Gomes, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Description: building in India
- Also known as: “St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral” and “St.Marys metropolitan church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Changanasseri railway station and St. Berchmans Higher Secondary School.
Changanasseri railway station
Railway station
Photo: RajeshUnuppally, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Changanasseri railway station is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Thiruvananthapuram railway division of the Southern Railway zone. It is the second largest railway station in Kottayam district, Kerala, and is located in the Ernakulam–Kottayam–Kollam line. Changanasseri railway station is situated 1½ km east of St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Changanassery.
St. Berchmans Higher Secondary School
School
St. Berchmans Higher Secondary School is an aided Catholic Residential School in Changanasserry of Kottayam district. Established by Mar Charles Lavigne SJ, the then Vicar Apostolic of Kottayam, in 1891, is one of the oldest Catholic schools in Kerala. St. Berchmans Higher Secondary School is situated 1½ km northeast of St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Changanassery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Changanassery and Perunna.
Changanassery
Town
Photo: RajeshUnuppally, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Changanassery, formerly Changanacherry, is a municipality in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India. It is located 17 km south of the district headquarters in Kottayam and about 115 km north of the state capital Thiruvananthapuram.
Perunna
Suburb
Photo: RajeshUnuppally, Public domain.
Perunna is a suburb of Changanassery, Kerala, India. Perunna is located approximately 0.8 kilometres south of the town centre, at the intersection of the State Highway 1 and the State Highway 11.
Thrikkodithanam
Village
Thrikkodithanam is a village in Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India. It is located on the outskirts of Changanassery Municipality. The area of the villages is 9.5 km2. Thrikkodithanam is situated 3½ km east of St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Changanassery.
St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Changanassery
- Categories: Catholic cathedral, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Changanassery, Kottayam, Kerala, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.44405° or 9° 26′ 39″ northLongitude
76.5364° or 76° 32′ 11″ eastOpen location code
6JXRCGVP+JHOpenStreetMap ID
node 6898367697OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q7594508
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Tamil—“St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Changanassery” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاتدرائية متروبوليتان سانت مارى”
- Indonesian: “Katedral Changanassery”
- Spanish: “Catedral Metropolitana de Santa Maria”
- Spanish: “Catedral metropolitana de Santa María”
- Spanish: “Catedral Metropolitana de Santa María”
- Tamil: “புனித மேரி பெருநகர பேராலயம், சங்கனாச்சேரி”
- Tamil: “புனித மேரி பெருநகர பேராலயம்”
- Tamil: “வலியபள்ளி”
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