Source: – True Indology / Twitter.
Claim they always make: "Palayoor Church is one of the Oldest Churches in the world"
Fact they NEVER tell you: Palayoor Church was built after demolishing an existing Hindu temple at that site. Ruins of the Hindu temples were found inside the Chuch complex until recently https://t.co/BIE19HjqTC
— True Indology (@TrueIndology) December 20, 2017
British Gazetteer( Madras district page 478) in 1933 recorded ruins of Hindu temple inside the Church complex pic.twitter.com/ich4eSS9By
— True Indology (@TrueIndology) December 20, 2017
Local christians pointed to the temple ruins with pride and recounted the tradition. They claimed Thomas performed miracles, converted a few Brahmans, drove away the rest of them and converted the Hindu temple to a Church pic.twitter.com/X0AO3tBq98
— True Indology (@TrueIndology) December 20, 2017
Archaeology confirms this Church was built on ruins of destroyed temple
"Recent excavations show that the present church and its compound stand on the remnants of a Hindu temple, with its tank, sacred well and sculpture"
– Journal of Indian History, Volume 49(1971) Page 251
— True Indology (@TrueIndology) December 20, 2017
To make myself clear
1) There is no evidence that St. Thomas ever visited India
2) There is no evidence of existence of this Church before 1600
3) But there is IRREFUTABLE evidence that this Church was indeed built on the site of a destroyed temple
— True Indology (@TrueIndology) December 20, 2017
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