Established on November 3, 1957, by Zecharias Mar Athanasios, bishop of Tiruvalla, in Kerala, as an autonomous monastery of eparchial rank of the Syro-Malankara Church, Kurisumala Ashram grew as a community of spiritual seekers. Our quest is pursued in prayer and work. Yet it is meant to lead the seeker to a higher consciousness, the realization of our communion with our Lord, as He exhorted His disciples, “Abide in Me as I abide in you”, communion with the creation, as attested in the Psalms, and communion with each other, as in the early experience of the Church.