Mount Tabor Monastery, Pathanapuram

Mount Tabor Monastery, also called Mount Tabor Ashram, belongs to the Indian Orthodox church and stands in Pathanapuram. It was founded in 1929 by Thoma Mar Dionysius, who remained its first Superior until 1972. Its aims went beyond monastic life alone, taking in education, homes for the old and for children, hospitals, social service and teaching of the Orthodox faith.

Today the ashram has 47 members and branches at several places, among them Mananthavadi and two in Tamil Nadu. A boys' home at Melam Kulanudi and a 100-bed hospital at Mathur, in Tamil Nadu, come under it, along with two colleges and a number of schools.