Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

The museum displays Bulgarian icons and the church claims that the museum contains the largest collection of Orthodox icons in ... is built in a beautiful Neo-Byzantine style of architecture ...

Other notable examples of women who became empresses of the Byzantine Empire include Irene of Athens, who ruled in her own right and convened the Second Council of Nicaea, restoring the veneration of ...

1 To this day, the Greek Orthodox Christians venerate a wellspring of Nazareth ... in her hand is dated back to the seventh century (Milano, ivory cover). The Byzantine mosaic portraying the ...

The Roman Catholic Church of the West and the Orthodox Church of the East have ... In the eighth century, Byzantine Emperor Leo III (r. 717-41) ordered the destruction of all icons, pictures and ...

The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed is a Russian Orthodox church built by Tzar Ivan the Terrible ... by passages and galleries and contains a collection of 400 religious icons, dating from the 16th ...

Take a journey through history and heartfelt tradition with recipes that reflect this region’s cosmopolitan influences from east and west ...

Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other ...

It is a cuisine born at a crossroads of human history, on the line of demarcation between the Hellenistic and non-Hellenistic world, the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, Byzantine Orthodox ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the feast day of Epiphany on Sunday with a traditional dip into icy water even as local emergencies issued weather warnings. Local media showed people bathing ...