With its golden domes above the bayfront, Erie's Russian Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Christ is one of the city's most visible places of worship.
Every few years, the record industry lights upon another singing nun or singing friar or group of singing monks to reign atop the recording charts. So before you hear Moscow’s formidable Sretensky Monastery Choir, you should understand that this group is not really part of this genre. There are no monks in robes here.
Orthodox Christians constitute 43 percent of the Russian populace, but they have less churches and parishes per believer than any other major confession in the country, according to a new study presented on Wednesday.
“Fyodor Dostoyevsky said beauty would save the world,” Father Tikhon recalled, adding that tours such as this are a way to bring Russians and Americans together in a nonpolitical way. That thought was echoed by Father Paul, who had spent time in the United States and offered some translation help during the conversation. “Politics!” exclaimed Father Paul. “It’s like a nail in my liver.”
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Beijing is not exactly a city of church bells and rising spires, but nestled quietly among the trees within the protective walls of the Russian Embassy lies the Russian Orthodox Church of the Dormition of Most Holy Theotokos. Its humble but majestic onion dome and Greek cross rise above the embassy walls, a sight few could have imagined only 50 years ago, when the Orthodox church was converted by the Soviet authorities into a garage. Three years ago the “garage” was restored into what it was originally made for, a temple of God where the Divine Liturgy is offered in all the rich beauty of the Russian Orthodox tradition.