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Kalamassery, Kodungallūr — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Kalamassery is an industrial suburb east of Kochi, known for the Vamana Temple, Cochin University and the Infopark IT hub in Kerala.
About Kalamassery
Where to stay in Kalamassery
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Infopark sets the pattern. Most people booking a bed in Kalamassery are here for the IT hub, for Cochin University or for the industrial works that fill this part of Kochi, so the rooms cluster near those addresses rather than next to anything a holiday would take in. Kochi's centre is nine kilometres away.
Anyone splitting time between the Vamana Temple, the university campus and the older parts of Kochi will spend some of it on that road, which argues for a bed close to whichever of them matters most.
About Kalamassery
What are the main landmarks in Kalamassery?
The Vamana Temple comes first. It is the focal centre of Onam, the Kerala festival, and that standing explains why a suburb better known for industry appears on a visitor's list at all. Cochin University follows.
Its campus sits alongside Infopark, the IT hub of Kochi, while St Thomas Marthoma Church Kalamassery marks the Christian strand in a place whose landmarks divide between worship, learning and work.
What is the history of Kalamassery?
Kalamassery's past is written in three institutions: the Vamana Temple that made it the focal centre of Onam, Cochin University with its campus on the eastern side of Kochi, and the industrial works that gave the suburb its working character. The suburb's start date went unrecorded. Infopark belongs to the same industrial story, an IT hub set beside the works and the lecture halls, and it keeps Kochi's growth pushing along its eastern edge.
St Thomas Marthoma Church Kalamassery stands among them in Kerala, one more strand in a place the record describes by what it does rather than by when it began.
Where is Kalamassery?
Kalamassery occupies the eastern side of Kochi, roughly nine kilometres out from the city centre, on tropical ground in Kerala.
Updated August 2026