ABOUT

Kuninji is a small village, seven kilometers north to Ramapuram which is well known in Kerala history on account of well known persons like Ramapurathu warrier, Lalithambika Antharjanam and great personalities in church history such as Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar and Blessed Kunjachan. Majority of the settlers are from catholic Christian community.They depended upon Ramapuram and Neeranthanam churches for their spiritual needs. They had the strong ambition for a church here to fulfill their sacramental life. They sent a memorandum to the vicar apostolic, Bishop mar Thoma Kurialasseril of Changanachery. The memorandum of the people was carried to Changanachery on foot by their elders like Vattackattu Mathai Ouseph, Esthappan Kuruvila Kulakkat, Mathai Varkey Vattakkatt, Ulahannan Kochumankunnel. Kochuparambil Augusthy offered to give land for the proposed church at the centre of Kuninji. He gave one acre of land free of cost and six acres of land for a price for the church.