Immanuel Mar Thoma Church, Virginia

Immanuel Mar Thoma Church, Virginia is the second parish near to Washington DC, under Diocese of North America and Europe of Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar in India. Immanuel Mar Thoma Church, Virginia currently conducts it’s Holy Communion Service at the Community Lutheran Church located at Sterling, Virginia. On Sunday, the Sunday School Classes are held at 1:30 PM and Holy Communion/Worship Service is held at 2:30 PM. The Parish is currently led by Vicar Rev. Roy Geevarghese.

Immanuel Mar Thoma Church, Virginia was approved as a new parish of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar effective April 15th 2010 by the Synod of the Mar Thoma church which met on February 22nd 2010. Rev M.M John was appointed by the Most Rev. Dr. Joseph Mar Thoma Metropolitan as the first vicar of the parish which is under the Diocese of North America and Europe.

Since the early 90’s a dedicated group of Mar Thoma families have lived and worshipped in the Commonwealth of Virginia. These families longed for a place of worship closer to home and a place of Christian learning offered by Sunday school for their children. The Information Technology boom of the late 90’s brought a new wave of Mar Thoma families to Northern Virginia which was rapidly emerging as the Silicon Valley of the East. These families brought with them a desire for worship and fellowship with like-minded believers. The foundations for a future parish was laid over the years by these families as they participated actively in church organizations at the Mar Thoma Church of Greater Washington which as the parent church offered prayerful support to the infant parish.

IMTC, Virginia was blessed to have found Community Lutheran Church which offered its premises for IMTC to have its Sunday worship services and other parish activities. Community Lutheran Church is centrally located in Sterling, Virginia.

IMTC, Virginia by god’s grace has established fully functioning yuvajana sakhyam, sevika sangham, choir, Sunday school, edavaka mission, youth fellowship, young families’ fellowship and mission oriented outreach programs. Four prayer groups have been established and regular prayer meetings are being conducted.

On December 26, 2010, Diocesan Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Geevarghese Mar Theodosius Episcopa formally inaugurated Immanuel Mar Thoma Church, Virginia.