Haripad is the headquarters of Karthikappally taluk.
Haripad municipality and
Kayamkulam municipality belong to Karthikappally Taluk.
Haripad Sree Subrahmanya Swamy Temple and
Mannarasala Temple are famous pilgrimage sites near the village. Pandy is an island in Karthikapally taluk. Many iconic landmarks were constructed in Karthikappally.
Pithampil sree dharma sastha Temple,
Pithampil Kottaram, The St. Thomas Orthodox Cathedral or the Kottakakatthu Suriyani Palli, Mar Thoma Church, St Mary's Catholic Church, Karumbali Koikkal Kottaram, Karthikappally Kottaram,
Valiyakulangara Devi Temple,
Kottaram Mudiyil Shri KrishnaSwami Kshetram,
VathaloorKolical Kshetram, the
Haripad Sree Subrahmanya Swamy Temple or Kshetram and the centuries-old mosques in Karthikappally are also famous. The
Ananthapuram Kottaram is also famous.
Mannarasala Temple is also famous. St Thomas Orthodox Church (Kottakkakathu Old Syrian Church AD-829). is situated at the Karthikappally junction on the way to Thrikunappuzha. It is estimated that the church is more than 1200 years old. The exact year of construction is unknown. There are above 600 families in the parish. Karthikappally St. Thomas Orthodox Cathedral is one of the ancient churches in Kerala. The church, established some thousand years before, is at Harippad. Karthikappally church keeps an immense archive of the local history in about 621 palmyra-written records. The church became the centre of attraction recently as two lithograph records and the remnants suspected to be that of a metropolitan were unearthed from the church premises. The lithographic stones have been identified to be 300 years old.
Cheppad is about 44 km north of Kollam on Kollam-Alappuzha
National Highway 66. It has an
Orthodox Syrian Christian Church dedicated to St. George built in 1300 AD, a place of pilgrimage for Orthodox Syrian Christians. The main portico and subsidiary porches are built after the traditional pattern of the porches of Hindu temple. The wood carvings in the porches and the mural paintings which depicts the great scenes of epic of Jesus Christ are unique and rare specimens. Mar Dionysius IV of the
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (often called the
Cheppad Metropolitan) is buried there. In 1956
Hailie Salassie, the Emperor of
Ethiopia visited the church. The wooden sculptures in the
gopuram of Vettikkulangara Bhagavathy temple are famous. ==Demographics==