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The joy after the holy liturgy...
PS Paisie Lugojanul si pr. Gheorghe Cucu dupa o liturghie arhiereasca la Checea.
Reference (sorry for that English, I just copy from another source):
Novosibirsk region. Bolotninsky area. village Turnaevo. Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov.
One of the few surviving in an undistorted form in the Siberian wooden churches beg. XX. The building, constructed on a model project in 1912-1914, surmounted by an eight-poschiptsovymi completion and five decorative cupolas over the porch set belfry. Closed in 1940, busy club, and later a warehouse, dilapidated. The decision to transfer the church to believers adopted in 1989, the first service was held in 2000. Repaired.
The only fully preserved prerevolutionary wooden temple in the Novosibirsk region
Many Orthodox churches base their Easter date on the Julian calendar, which often differs from the Gregorian calendar that is used by many western countries. Therefore the Orthodox Easter period often occurs later than the Easter period that falls around the time of the March equinox.
Countries that officially observe the Orthodox Easter period include: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. There are no federal Orthodox Easter public holidays in countries such as Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. However, it is a time for families and friends of the Orthodox Christian faith to gather together and to celebrate the Orthodox Easter period.
Easter is not a federal holiday in Jordan, although many Orthodox Christians are pushing to make it an official holiday. There have been petitions calling for the government in Jordan to make Easter an official public holiday. Jordan has a population of about six million people, and about six percent consists of Christians while about 92 percent consists of people of the Sunni Muslim faith.
In Lebanon – a country with a population of nearly 60 percent being Muslim and about 39 percent being Christian – Easter Sunday and Good Friday are public holidays.
For more informations:
www.timeanddate.com/holidays/common/orthodox-easter-day
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shortly Days of All Saints and All Souls, everyone in Poland is visiting family tombs and graves of famous people, light the candles and put the flowers there. Today I was passing by the Warsaw's Orthodox churchyard and I couldn't resist making few pictures. Oldest tombs date 1836
Łódź in the 19th century was known for its multicultural character.
Orthodox items on display in the City Museum.
Ilford Delta 3200.
Negative inversion in darktable.
Excerpt from niagarathisweek.com:
St. George’s Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church at the corner of Ontario and Adelaide Streets was originally Grimsby Central Methodist Church, built around 1885. When the Methodists, the Congregationalists and some of the Presbyterians joined in 1925 to become the United Church of Canada, this building was renamed Trinity Hall, and was used as a Sunday school.
In 1948, it was sold to the newly formed congregation of St. George’s.
By 1943, there were enough Orthodox Ukrainian families in Grimsby to warrant a church of their own. They met at first at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. Cybulak on Main Street East where they decided to adopt St. George as their patron saint.
Five years later, they purchased the building on Ontario Street and became part of Grimsby’s religious community.
The nave is lavishly decorated with religious paintings and embroidered hangings made both by “Old Country” Ukrainian and local artisans. The screen in front of the altar is colourfully painted with lovely icons.
The Holy Ghost Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the village of Whitkow, Saskatchewan, as it appeared in April of 2009.
Almost to the day four years later, it was destroyed in accordance with church policy: reduced to ashes in a controlled burn.
You can read how and why, and see photos of the burn in this article by Jayne Foster, of the North Battleford News-Optimist.
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Today around 260 millions of Greek-orthodox (the second largest Christian communion in the world after the Roman Catholic Church) celebrate the othodox Easter in Greece, Cyprus, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Macedonia, Montenegro, Armenia, Georgia, Belarus, Ethiopia, Egypt.
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I took this image of a Greek Orthodox Chapel some time ago and have finally got around to editing it with some texture etc. to give it some extra interest. Enjoy your weekend!
A woman prays at Christmas liturgy in Aya Yorgi (St. George) church at Fener Ecumenical Orthodox patriarchate in Istanbul December 25, 2008.
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