Above the porch, on all four sides, there are tall pillars, carrying Seven David’s stars representing angels/messengers of the Seven Churches of Revelation (Rev. 1:20).
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Traditional belief of Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala is that Thomas the Apostle landed in or around Kodungallur in the middle of the 1st century and founded Seven Churches, or Ezharapallikal: Kodungallur, Kollam, Niranam, Nilackal (Chayal), Kokkamangalam, Kottakkayal (Paravoor), Palayoor (Chattukulangara) and Thiruvithamcode Arappally – a "half church".
His publications include: Onward and Upward, a Confirmation preparation course, in 1990; Churches of the Middle East, in 1993; Letters to the Seven Churches in Revelation, and Lent and Us, in 1994; and he edited Building Bridges, a compilation of speeches given by the late Lord Robert Runcie, then Archbishop of Canterbury, on his visit to Pakistan.
Within several weeks of his arrival over 700 people were attending his services and by the end of the first year seven churches had been founded around Matsue and Yonago.
Metropolis of Philadelphia, one of the historical Seven Churches of Asia, in what is now Turkey
Barclay, William, Letters to the Seven Churches, Edinburgh, 1957 (reprinted 2001).
This interpretation equates the third eye with the sixth of the seven churches of Asia detailed therein, the Church of Philadelphia.