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This article explains the Origin of Malankara Church of God Thrikkannamangal.( Originally known as Malankara Poorna Suvesha Sabha) The first "Pentecostals" in the modern sense appeared on the scene in 1901 in the city of Topeka Kansas in Bible school conducted by Charles Fox Parham a holiness teacher and former Methodist Pastor.The movement began during the first day of 1901 just as the world entered the twenieth century. The first person to be baptized in the Holy Spirit accompanied by speaking in tongues was Agnes Ozman, one of Parham's Bible school students. This made the Pentecostal movement of the twentieth century. This awakening spread rapidly to all parts of America.A three-year revival meeting under leadership of William J. Seymour started at Azusa street mission in Los Angeles from 1906-1909 that attracted believers from around the world. George E. Berg, an Independent American missionary of German descent went to India in 1901, and returned to the United States in 1908, where he received the Spirit baptism at Azusa street mission in 1908. He came to India accompanied with Lang,Bird, Maynard, Musabai, Arthur and David. and proclaimed the first Pentecostal message at Thrikkannamangal during December 1909. In subsequent years 1910 and 1911 He came with native missionary Cummins of an Anglo Indian and delivered the same message at Thrikkannamangal.Berg went to America in 1912 for world Pentecostal conference and met Missionary Robert F. Cook and both of them came to Bangalore during 1913, extending the Gospel work to South India. Robert F. Cook shifted his headquarters from Banglore to Thrikkannamangal in 1921. The name given to the Church which he established at Thrikkannamangal was “Malankara Poorna Suvisesha Sabha”. This name was changed to Malankara Church of God, Thrikkannamangal during 1984. ==Etymology== The name Malankara is re-fixed for most of the orthodox churches of Kerala, in south-west India. Malankara is a cognate of Maliankara, a place near Muziris, where St Thomas the Apostle is said to have arrived in AD 52. It was the headquarters of the church from the first century. Muziris is possibly around the ancient town of Kodungallur, (Cranganore) near Cochin. In course of time this word changed to Malankara. In the history there is importance for Jerusalem because Christian church was begun from there, likewise Christianity in Kerala began from Maliankara by St Thomas. Knowingly or unknowingly all Orthodox churches re-fix this name with their churches to claim lineage of initial beginning of Christianity. Thrikkannamangal is a suburb around the city of Kottarakara in Kollam district of Kerala state, India. This town is named so because it was the direction that kings of old, standing in their palace would face in the morning. Kollam was the seat of the Desinganad kings. Kollam had mercantile relationship between Phoenicians and Romans. The city of Kottarakara is named so because it served as a palace for the kings”kottaram” or palace. Kottarakara is famous as the place where the classical dance form of kathakali was conceived. It was also the capital of ElayidathSawaroopam. The mahaganapathi Temple famous for its unniappam is one of the most venerated Ganesh Temples in Kerala. It has people of many faiths and political leanings. There is strong Hindu as well as Christian presence. The Muslim population, though significant is not as large as the Hindu or Christian population. Kathakali has its own museum at Thrikkannamangal. It is a dance form that originated from this place by kottarakara Thampuran. There is an ancient Srikrishana Temple at Thrikkannamangal, its door was opened to lower caste people by Mahatma Gandhi on January 31, 1937, soon after the proclamation issued by Maharaja Sri Chithra Thirunal Balarama Varma and his Dewan Sri C. P. Ramaswami Iyer in 1936. One of the unique points of modern history tied to Thrikkannamangl is that it served as the launching pad for the Pentecostal movements that has now spread throughout India. The American missionaries George E. Berg and Robert F. Cook were received into this place by the late Kalloor John Chacko, one of the patriarchs of the Kalloor family, from the beginning of their work. History (Temple Entry proclamation) In 1896 an Ezhava Memorial signed by more than 13,000 representatives of the Hindu Ezhava community of Travancore in Kerala submitted to the government, a praying to be recognized the right of the Ezhavas to enter Temple and Government service jobs; the upper castes Hindus of the state prevailed upon the Maharajah, not to concede the prayer. In dejection, many of the Ezhavas embraced Christianity, making the Christian population of Travancore increase from six lakhs in 1901 to seventeen lakhs by 1931. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Origin of Malankara Church of God Thrikkannamangal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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