page_title: Maramon Convention
section_title: View of Convention
hierarchical_section_title: Maramon Convention / View of Convention
caption_attribution_description: English: A Wide view of Maramon Convention Venue 2008 (Asia's Largest Christian convention started 113 years ago - 1896,Banks of River Pampa - Kerala, India) View from the 'Kozhencheari' Side.
context_page_description: The Maramon Convention, one of the largest Christian convention in Asia, is held at Maramon, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India annually in February on the vast sand-bed of the Pampa River next to the Kozhencherry Bridge. It is organised by Mar Thoma Evangelistic Association, the missionary wing of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church.
  The origin and growth of this annual get-together for one week at a stretch can be traced to the great revival movement which gathered momentum during the reformation period in the Syrian Churches of Kerala under the pioneering leadership of Abraham Malpan in the latter part of the 19th century. This brought about the transformation in resurgence of the ancient apostolic Churches in Kerala founded by St. Thomas the Apostle approximately in AD 52.
context_section_description: Maramon Convention (2008). This view of the convention is from Kozhencherry side. Kozhencherry bridge is on the right. There are usually no empty spaces inside the Panthal (tent). So people stand outside and group around the shades to listen to the songs and messages.
  Maramon Convention (2009). This view of the convention is from Maramon side. Kozhencherry bridge is on the left.
caption: Maramon Convention – 2008
exif: {"Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "38", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "4116", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1134"}