Continued from above.
http://hamsa.org/10.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The archaeological evidence indicates that these churches were built after the ninth century by Nestorian immigrants from Persia. The famous church at Palayur north of Cranganore was built by the Portuguese and is dedicated to the fourth century martyr St. Cyriac (Mar Kuriakkos Sahada). Fr. Herman D'Souza, in In the Steps of St. Thomas, writes, "The [Palayur] temple deserted by the Brahmins as a result of St. Thomas's efforts, was turned into a church. Pieces of broken idols and remnants of the old temple were lying around the church till a short time ago. Two large tanks, one on the eastern side of the church and the other near the western gate, are tell-tale relics of the ancient glory of the Hindu temple." D'Souza was writing in 1983 and includes pictures of the old temple walls, well and tank in his book. He is blaming St. Thomas for the templeâbreaking activities of the Portuguese and Syrian Christians.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
More, including the christoterrorists from France:
http://hamsa.org/14.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->M. Arunachalam, in an article in Christianity in India: A Critical Study, writes, "It is well known that the Portuguese sacked the famous Tiruchendur Murugan Temple on the sea coast and threw the idol into the sea. Sometime later, in 1654, the chieftain Vadamalaiyappa Pillai of Tirunelveli, salvaged the idol from the sea and installed it at the present Tiruchendur temple."[41]
He continues, "The Tirumalai Nayak Mahal [at Madurai] is another example. Jealous of its magnificence, the British began demolishing it, but public agitation checked it and what we have today is only a part of what was originally there."
The British were generally less destructive than the Portuguese and the French, but they did not hesitate to attack temples that were in the way of construction works or to desecrate them as a means of intimidating the local populace. They fired on the temples of Kalahasti in Andhra Pradesh for this last reason; and Victoria Terminus in Bombay is built on the original site of that city's famous Mumbai Devi Temple. In Madras they obliterated the small Hindu shrines that once stood inside Fort St. George. The fort now contains St. Mary's Church, the first Protestant church built east of Suez.
But it is the French who vied with the Portuguese in their Christian zeal to destroy Pagan places of worship. Henry Love, in Vestiges of Old Madras, records that they used temples as barracks in their military operations against the British. Between 1672 and 1674, at Madras, they fortified the rebuilt Kapalees--wara Temple in Mylapore and the Parthasarathy Temple in Triplicane when they were besieged by Golconda and the Dutch.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That page then continues about what happened in Pondicherry (originally called Pandya Sherry, after the Pandyans).
More on the original Kapaleeshwarar Kovil and what christoterrorists did at http://hamsa.org/15.htm and http://hamsa.org/16.htm
Oooh, look, here's an apt little summary of christoislamism
http://hamsa.org/appendixes.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->While the rabidly fanatic Tipu Sultan "the bandit of Mysore" destroyed two thousand temples in the Malabar region to establish Islam, it was the British rulers acting at the behest of Christian missionaries who, starting from two hundred years ago, dug the grave of the Kerala temples. The wily British accomplished this not by resorting to anything so crude and beastly as demolishing them: but by simply confiscating all of them "in the name of the state of course" along with all their landed properties and then making sure that the temples rotted away from calculated, steady attrition.
The present [1991] United Democratic Government of Kerala, under the command of the Muslim League and the Kerala Congress (a front party for the Churches) is now living up to the tradition of all former Kerala governments by following this same policy with enthusiasm and vigour.
Not only the British overlords but also the governments that came into power in Kerala after 1947 were never content with this wholesale robbery alone of temple properties. They continuously plundered, and helped others plunder, the relatively better off temples of even parts of the grounds the temples stood on; and also of the offerings of devotees. The latest of these forays is the still standing order (now under review by the High Court) of K. Karunakaran, the Chief Minister of Kerala, that the Guruvayur Sri Krishna Temple Dewaswom (the management appointed by the Government) withdraw ten crores from the banks and deposit the amount with the state treasury to help the Government out of its present financial crisis.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The following para makes a very good point, even if it's on another topic from what I meant to be posting on:
http://hamsa.org/09.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Portuguese had come to India to spread their religion and to tradeâin that order, too, which is why Portugal is a poor country today even after ruling rich colonies. In the process they acquired the raw materials for <b>a new cult, the St. Thomas legend</b>, which would prove to be their most enduring "gift" to Mylaporeâalong with a large number of churches that have been built on temple sites around the southern coasts. <b>The cult would also give imported Christianity the veneer of being an indigenous Indian religion, a political gift to the Catholic Church more valuable than all the pearls and pepper that went to Lisbon.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Ishwar Sharan's book and that of Sita Ram Goel at the http://hamsa.org site are Must Reads for every Hindu.
http://hamsa.org/10.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The archaeological evidence indicates that these churches were built after the ninth century by Nestorian immigrants from Persia. The famous church at Palayur north of Cranganore was built by the Portuguese and is dedicated to the fourth century martyr St. Cyriac (Mar Kuriakkos Sahada). Fr. Herman D'Souza, in In the Steps of St. Thomas, writes, "The [Palayur] temple deserted by the Brahmins as a result of St. Thomas's efforts, was turned into a church. Pieces of broken idols and remnants of the old temple were lying around the church till a short time ago. Two large tanks, one on the eastern side of the church and the other near the western gate, are tell-tale relics of the ancient glory of the Hindu temple." D'Souza was writing in 1983 and includes pictures of the old temple walls, well and tank in his book. He is blaming St. Thomas for the templeâbreaking activities of the Portuguese and Syrian Christians.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
More, including the christoterrorists from France:
http://hamsa.org/14.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->M. Arunachalam, in an article in Christianity in India: A Critical Study, writes, "It is well known that the Portuguese sacked the famous Tiruchendur Murugan Temple on the sea coast and threw the idol into the sea. Sometime later, in 1654, the chieftain Vadamalaiyappa Pillai of Tirunelveli, salvaged the idol from the sea and installed it at the present Tiruchendur temple."[41]
He continues, "The Tirumalai Nayak Mahal [at Madurai] is another example. Jealous of its magnificence, the British began demolishing it, but public agitation checked it and what we have today is only a part of what was originally there."
The British were generally less destructive than the Portuguese and the French, but they did not hesitate to attack temples that were in the way of construction works or to desecrate them as a means of intimidating the local populace. They fired on the temples of Kalahasti in Andhra Pradesh for this last reason; and Victoria Terminus in Bombay is built on the original site of that city's famous Mumbai Devi Temple. In Madras they obliterated the small Hindu shrines that once stood inside Fort St. George. The fort now contains St. Mary's Church, the first Protestant church built east of Suez.
But it is the French who vied with the Portuguese in their Christian zeal to destroy Pagan places of worship. Henry Love, in Vestiges of Old Madras, records that they used temples as barracks in their military operations against the British. Between 1672 and 1674, at Madras, they fortified the rebuilt Kapalees--wara Temple in Mylapore and the Parthasarathy Temple in Triplicane when they were besieged by Golconda and the Dutch.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That page then continues about what happened in Pondicherry (originally called Pandya Sherry, after the Pandyans).
More on the original Kapaleeshwarar Kovil and what christoterrorists did at http://hamsa.org/15.htm and http://hamsa.org/16.htm
Oooh, look, here's an apt little summary of christoislamism
http://hamsa.org/appendixes.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->While the rabidly fanatic Tipu Sultan "the bandit of Mysore" destroyed two thousand temples in the Malabar region to establish Islam, it was the British rulers acting at the behest of Christian missionaries who, starting from two hundred years ago, dug the grave of the Kerala temples. The wily British accomplished this not by resorting to anything so crude and beastly as demolishing them: but by simply confiscating all of them "in the name of the state of course" along with all their landed properties and then making sure that the temples rotted away from calculated, steady attrition.
The present [1991] United Democratic Government of Kerala, under the command of the Muslim League and the Kerala Congress (a front party for the Churches) is now living up to the tradition of all former Kerala governments by following this same policy with enthusiasm and vigour.
Not only the British overlords but also the governments that came into power in Kerala after 1947 were never content with this wholesale robbery alone of temple properties. They continuously plundered, and helped others plunder, the relatively better off temples of even parts of the grounds the temples stood on; and also of the offerings of devotees. The latest of these forays is the still standing order (now under review by the High Court) of K. Karunakaran, the Chief Minister of Kerala, that the Guruvayur Sri Krishna Temple Dewaswom (the management appointed by the Government) withdraw ten crores from the banks and deposit the amount with the state treasury to help the Government out of its present financial crisis.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The following para makes a very good point, even if it's on another topic from what I meant to be posting on:
http://hamsa.org/09.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Portuguese had come to India to spread their religion and to tradeâin that order, too, which is why Portugal is a poor country today even after ruling rich colonies. In the process they acquired the raw materials for <b>a new cult, the St. Thomas legend</b>, which would prove to be their most enduring "gift" to Mylaporeâalong with a large number of churches that have been built on temple sites around the southern coasts. <b>The cult would also give imported Christianity the veneer of being an indigenous Indian religion, a political gift to the Catholic Church more valuable than all the pearls and pepper that went to Lisbon.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Ishwar Sharan's book and that of Sita Ram Goel at the http://hamsa.org site are Must Reads for every Hindu.