No, not the birthplace of the famed diamond. However this small town, home to the Calicut University Institute of Engineering is a microcosm of India.
Syrian Orthodox church in Kohinoor Kerala: There is a thriving Jacobite Syrian Orthodoxy in Kerala and the church even has its own saint Gheevargese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, Kerala. In Kohinoor there is a church named after him. He is the first canonized Christian saint from India in the Orthodox tradition. Legend has it the young saint's teacher Malpan became sick with smallpox. Throughout Malpan's sickness and death, Deacon Gheevarghese stayed with him. He soon became sick and during his illness, he saw a vision of Mary, coming down to him to comfort him. She told him to dedicate the rest of his life to the Lord. Soon after this experience, the deacon recovered. In 1865, the Deacon Gheevarghese was ordained as a priest at the age of 18.
A Raja Ravi Varma painting of the Saint
This is Indian diversity - a Syriac Othodox chruch, an Ayyappa temple, a Masjid and a St Thomas Aquinas Church right next to each other - throw in an Engineering college just so !
