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Pallikkunnu Church, or Our Lady of Lourdes Church, is a Catholic pilgrimage centre at Pallikkunnu in Mananthavady taluk, Wayanad. The early-20th-century shrine is known for its February feast and locally influenced devotional traditions.
Pallikkunnu Church, widely known as Our Lady of Lourdes Church or Lourde Matha Church, is an important Christian pilgrimage centre in Wayanad district, Keralam. Government heritage documentation places the church at Pallikkunnu beside the Kambalakkad-Vilambukandam road, in Anjukunnu village under Panamaram local body and Mananthavady taluk. Tourism sources connect the present shrine with a French missionary, Fr.
Jefreno or Jeffrine, in the early 20th century. The church is surrounded by the green inland landscape of Wayanad and is especially known for its annual February feast, which draws pilgrims from Keralam and neighbouring states. An often-mentioned feature of the shrine is the presence of devotional customs that show local cultural influence and resemble practices seen at some Hindu pilgrimage centres.
Pallikkunnu Church is also associated with Wayanad’s pilgrim-tourism circuit along with Korome Mosque and Valliyoorkavu Bhagavathy Temple, making it valuable both as a living place of worship and as part of the district’s shared cultural landscape.
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