St. Antony Church, Naravi

St Antony Church is a Roman Catholic parish church at Naravi in Belthangady taluk, part of the Diocese of Mangalore. A small chapel stood here from around 1870. In 1905 Fr Faustine Corti, a Swiss professor at St Aloysius College, Mangalore, came to Naravi and spent 21 years working among the local Koraga people; the civil authorities awarded him the Kaisar-i-Hind medal for this work, and he died in 1926.

As the congregation grew, foundations for a larger church were laid in 1923, but work stalled until 1929, when Fr Gaviragi took it up and finished it within a year. The church was blessed on 7 May 1930, and the old chapel became a school. The parish had 255 families in 2015 and runs schools, a college, a hostel and an orphanage.