MILESTONES

  • Prayer Group started in November 1977
  • Bahrain St. Peter’s Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church is established as a registered church in 1978
  • Ist Holy Qurbano was celebrated by Rev. Fr. Varghese Puliyan on 2nd November 1978.
  • Ist Vicar V. Rev. Thomas Moothedam Ramban took charge in December 1978

PARISH RELOCATED TO:

  • Naim area in 1979
  • Ras Roman area in 1981 near Amerian Mission Hospital
  • Salmaniya area in 1984
  • The present premises at Salmaniya in January 1991

MAJOR RENOVATIONS TO THE PRESENT PREMISES:

  • In 1996, in 2005 and in 2008.
  • The Social Service League was established in the year 2000.
  • The Youth Association wing was re-established in April 2005.
  • Sunday school started in 1980.
  • The Martha Mariam Vanitha Samajam unit of the Church was re-established in October 2002.
  • The Church was blessed with the Apostolic visits of Patriarch of Antioch & All the East H.H. Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, in 1989 and 2003.
  • The late Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselius Paulose II visited our church in 1988.
  • The Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselius Thomas I visited our Church in 2004.

CULTURAL PROGRAMS

  • 1982 – Katha Prasangam
  • 1983- Drama
  • 2002 – Cultural program titled “ Agape 1”
  • 2003- A cultural program titled “Midad Sandya”, by 50 well known artists from Kerela
  • 2005 – Cultural program titled “ Agape II”

ST. PETER’S J.S.O. CHURCH CELEBRATED ITS JUBILEES:

  • 20th Anniversary in 1998
  • Silver jubilee of the Church in 2003.
  • Silver jubilee celebration of the Sunday school in 2006.
  • 30th Anniversary of the Church – 2008