Church in Sayville, traces it’s roots back to one of my namesakes, the Apostle Thomas September 29, 2025August 19, 2010 by Tom Faranda Let's here it for Thomas! WEST SAYVILLE, N.Y. — Without doubt, many more people line the sidewalks to see the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Manhattan than to watch the St. Mary Malankara Indian Orthodox Church’s annual Assumption Day Parade, which began here on Sunday with the usual blowing of the kumbu horn and the dancing of the koladi by the congregation’s teenage girls, dressed in saris and banging sticks