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{{Infobox church
| denomination = [[Syriac Orthodox Church]]
| name = Manjanikara Dayara
| image = Manjinikkara_Dayra_Church.jpg
| caption =
| coordinates =
| location = {{flagicon|India}} [[Omalloor]]
| tradition = [[Syriac language|Syriac]], [[Malayalam]]
| founded date = 15-12-1925
| founder = Skaria Malpan Elavinamannil<br />
Dayro:[[Mor Yulios Elias Qoro]]
| otherdedication = [[Ignatius Elias III]] Patriarch of Antioch
| relics = Holy Relics of [[Ignatius Elias III]], [[Mor Yulios Elias Qoro]]
| past bishop = [[Mor Yulios Elias Qoro]]
| diocese = Thumpamon diocese
| vicar =
| Website =
}}

'''Manjanikkara Dayara''' is a monastery of the [[Syriac Orthodox Church]]. It is situated at the top of the hillock in Manjanikkara, near [[Omallur]], [[Pathanamthitta]] District, in South [[Kerala]], [[India]]. The monastery was established by [[Mor Yulios Elias Qoro]], Patriarchal delegate to the [[Malankara Church]]. The Manjanikkara Dayro is the seat of the Patriarchal Delegate to Malankara and the metropolitan of the Simhasana churches (churches administered directly by the Patriarchate).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.keralatourism.org/destination/manjinikkara-dayara-church/55|title=Manjinikkara Dayara Church - a Famous Christian Pilgrimage Centre at Omallur, Pathanamthitta - Kerala Tourism|website=www.keralatourism.org}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite news|title=Manjanikkara church fete begins|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/manjanikkara-church-fete-begins/article22653595.ece|work=The Hindu|date=5 February 2018|language=en-IN}}</ref>
==History==

On 11 February 1932, at the invitation of Kashisho Kuriakos Elavinamannil, the Patriarch [[Ignatius Elias III]] arrived at the Manjinikara Mor Stephanos church from [[Kallissery]]. On arriving at Manjinikara, the Patriarch said, "This place offers us much comfort; we desire to remain here permanently." He died there on 13 February.


Different opinions arose regarding the final resting place for the Patriarch—a situation that the church in Malankara never had to confront before.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}} It was decided to inter his body in a plot of land to the north of the Mor Stephanos church, the title deed of which was transferred to the Patriarchate. On 14 February, the funeral services for the patriarch were held there.

The Mor Ignatios Dayro church was built by the Patriarchal delegate [[Mor Yulios Elias Qoro]] over the tomb of the Patriarch. The memory of the Patriarch is preserved by the Syriac Orthodox Church, especially in Malankara where thousands of pilgrims reach the tomb by foot on the annual feast day, 13 February, from all over the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.ibnlive.com/news/india/thousands-take-part-in-manjinikkara-pilgrimage-445681.html|title=News18.com: CNN-News18 Breaking News India, Latest News, Current News Headlines|website=News18}}</ref> Ignatius Elias is the only [[Patriarch of Antioch]] whose body is interred in Malankara.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}

On 20 October 1987, Patriarch Mor [[Ignatius Zakka I Iwas]] through encyclical E265/87 permitted the Church in Malankara to remember his name in the fifth diptych.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}

The remains of Mor Yulius Elias Qoro and Mor Yulius Yacoub, former Patriarchal delegates to Malankara, are also interred in the church.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}

== Seminary ==

The Mor Ignatios Dayro church is worked as the seminary school for a long time for the [[Jacobite Syrian Christian Church]] under the leadership of [[Mor Yulios Elias Qoro]]. As numerous seminarians studied and understood the teachings of holy fathers promoted by the same faith and same church and part of the [[Syriac Orthodox Church]].

===Scholars===
*Father [[V. C. Samuel]] - theologian, scholar of [[Jacobite Syrian Christian Church]], later converted into the [[Malankara Orthodox Church]].
*[[Curien Kaniamparambil]] - [[Curien Kaniamparambil]] is the Great Scholar of the [[Jacobite Syrian Christian Church]]. He written many books and converted [[Peshitta]] into the Malayalam is known as '''Vishudha Grandham'''(വിശുദ്ധഗ്രന്ഥം).

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed-hover" heights="200px">
File:Tomb of saint elias.JPG| Tomb of [[Ignatius Elias III]]
File:Tomb_of_Mor_Yulios_Elias_Qoro.jpg|Tomb of [[Mor Yulios Elias Qoro]].
File:Manjanikara Dayara.JPG|Feast and Foot Pilgrimage.
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

{{Churches of Kerala}}
{{Christianity in Kerala}}
{{Syriac Orthodox monasteries}}

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