It is characterized by the facades of smoothly hewn large blocks, balanced proportions and blind arches for exterior decoration. The Gelati monastery, one of the largest medieval Orthodox monasteries, ...

A photographic survey revealed dozens of Bulgarian inscriptions in Greek Orthodox monasteries across Jerusalem’s Old City.

This is a fine example of a working Orthodox monastery, with military features that are typical of the 15th to the 18th century, the period during which it developed. The main church of the Lavra, the ...

In 1995, six Orthodox monks left Mount Athos in Greece and came to the US to start Saint Anthony Orthodox Monastery in the Arizona desert.

It wasn’t until the 13th century that the monastery as we know it today was founded by Orthodox monks during a period when ...

A delegation of 47 parliamentarians from 10 countries visited St. Catherine’s Monastery, where they met with Dr. Khaled ...

Catherine’s Monastery, where they met with Dr ... and members of the Egyptian House of Representatives. As part of the Orthodox Parliamentary Assembly's official programme in Egypt, running ...

THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is involved in mobilizing ... when asked about the relations between the Danilov Monastery and the Kremlin, merely waves his hand. It is not only because he is wary ...

More than a dozen Orthodox Christians hve gathered in Dereham for a pilgrimage. The event, which took place in the churchyard at St Nicholas Church, was in honour of St Withburga's holy well. Leading ...

But Orthodox priests Denis Popovich ... hatched a plot to blow up the Metropolitan’s quarters at the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow. They had collected explosives and Ukrainian passports ...