Churches of the East: Greek Orthodox

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Sunday, September 14, 2025

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, September 14, 1925. Appearance of the Byzantine Cross.

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, September 14, 1925. Mitchell's comments d...:

The Byzantine cross appeared in the sky over Athens during an old calendar service of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the All-Honourable and Life-giving Cross of our Savior. The Orthodox Church was being repressed by the Greek government at the time.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, December 17, 1924. An election and a p...

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, December 17, 1924. An election and a p...:

Wednesday, December 17, 1924. An election and a promise.

Constantine VI, the Metropolitan of Derkoi, was elected as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

Prior to his election, Turkey had warned that they regarded him as subject to deportation as he was an immigrant to what was now Turkey.

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.