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The church is owned by three church authorities, the Greek Orthodox (most of the building and furnishings), the Catholic and the Armenian Apostolic (each of them with lesser properties). [1] The Coptic Orthodox and Syriac Orthodox are holding minor rights of worship at the Armenian church in the northern transept, and at the Altar of Nativity. [1]
Baptismal site in Jordan: Russian Pilgrims' Residence [8] Bethlehem: Russian Pilgrims' Residence [8] Hebron: Abraham's Oak Holy Trinity Monastery, with the Church of Holy Forefathers [8] (held by ROCOR from ca. 1917-1997. [9] In 1997 Palestinian police turned it over to ROC. [10]) Jericho: Metochion of St. John the Baptist [8]
The nave of an Orthodox church can vary in shape/size and layout according to the various traditions within the Church. The two most common layouts inside Orthodox churches since Justinian have been a cruciform layout, an open square/rectangular layout, or a more linear layout with side-aisles.
The Holy Trinity Cathedral (Russian: Свято-Троицкий собор, Hebrew: קתדרלת השילוש הקדוש) is a cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, located at the heart of the so-called Russian Compound in central Jerusalem.
The Russian Orthodox Convent of the Ascension, built in 1870, is located about 200 meters northeast of the chapel. [18] It now houses about 40 nuns. [19] Across the street stands the Muslim Makassed Hospital. Further away to the northeast is the German Protestant Ascension Church, part of the Augusta Victoria compound.
The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives. Today, up to 50,000 Alaskans ...
The Holy and Ancient Archdiocese of Jerusalem, All Palestine, and All the Near East, holds a special status of seniority of honor and precedence.This great archdiocesan metropolis is technically outside the Egyptian Province and is not considered to be within the jurisdiction of the See of Alexandria, but is simply a foreign possession of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Also of particular importance to the Eastern Orthodox Church and particularly the Greek Orthodox Church is the peninsular Mount Athos, where the most masses in the world are celebrated daily in the Byzantine Rite. Mount Athos arguably comprises the largest community of Christian monastics, ascetics, and mystics (specifically hesychasts) in the ...