Churches of the East: July 2023

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Ukraine moves Christmas to the Julian Calendar.

So Christmas will now be officially celebrated on December 25 on the new calendar, rather than January 7 on the new calendar.

This practice had already been adopted by many Ukrainian churches. The official change comes about due to the war.

Related Threads:

Ukrainian Orthodox Church to switch to Julian Calendar.

Churches of the East

This blog is a collection of photographs of churches, and sometimes a bit more, that we find interesting. It isn't an attempt to catalog all the churches in any one town, or even of any one area in a town. The selection of churches featured is simply our own choice, based on churches we find architecturally or historically interesting for one reason or another.

That means that the selection is necessarily limited. Being sort of old school in terms of architecture, it also means that for the most part it will be rare to find a church built after the 1950s featured here, as we tend not to care too much for post 50s church architecture. That's just us, and isn't a comment on anything else.

This blog is a companion to Churches of the West and Churches of the South.