Bethany Asram

The life and strength of a Church depends upon the Monastic Communities.Fr.P.T.Geevarghese (mar Ivanious OIC) & Dn.Alexious (mar Theodosious OIC). the founder's of Bethany Asram understood the need of monastic community in the church and he established the Bethany Asram in 1918. Here started the Spiritual Revival in the Malankara Orthodox Church. The Late Mr. E.J. John of Elanjickal family Niranam donated his property at Perunad Mundanmala- “The Abode of Ascetic Life”, here started the first monastic community of the Indian Orthodox Church. Dn. Alexious himself first went to Perunad, a place of wild beasts and forests. He had to struggle hard physically and mentally but a man of prayer; he embraced all those trials and tribulations for the glory of his Heavenly Father. After a year in 1919 his professor at serampore Fr. P.T. Geevarghese joined him. In 1920 both Fr. P.T. Geevarghese & Fr. Alexious along with Dn. Jacob Kalapurackal took the oath of ascetic life. The leaders of the church and the laity e