Soon an Orthodox male monastery was established at this church. It was first mentioned in the chronicles in 1587. The construction of the Dormition Cathedral began in the first half of the 17th ...

RIPON CATHEDRAL CHAPTER has withdrawn its planning application for a proposed annexe that would have included lavatories, a refectory, a song school, and storage. It was estimated to have the ...

The Kyiv Culture Ministry said that it had directed Ukraine’s Moscow-linked Orthodox Church, the UOC, to hand back another “illegally owned” landmark, the 12th-century Dormition Cathedral, in Kaniv, ...

1856 St. Sophia-Dormition Cathedral in Tobolsk, 1686 (photo by Óðinn, CC BY-SA 2.5 ca) One could argue that maintaining the delicate balance between Church and State is the fate of any religion faced ...

PARIS — When Jean-Charles de Castelbajac watched as Notre Dame Cathedral burned ... there was the stained glass in the church and the coats of arms in the refectory that filled my world with ...

Several suspected pro-Russian Orthodox clergy have been detained and searched. The Ukrainian government also reclaimed the Dormition Cathedral and the Refectory Church in Kyiv -- part of the ...

The Ukrainian government also reclaimed the Dormition Cathedral and the Refectory Church in Kyiv — part of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra complex, a UNESCO World Heritage site — after the UOC's lease ...

Assailants opened fire at an Orthodox church, a synagogue and a traffic ... including at the Holy Dormition Cathedral, where people were reportedly trapped inside. Two suspects were killed at ...

In the same year, Odesa became the seat of the Kherson-Tauride diocesan bishop and the church received the proud title of Cathedral. The new status required more space, therefore the cathedral began ...

The Russian-controlled church's lease on the part of the Lavra, including the main Dormition Cathedral, expired on Jan. 1. The monastery was returned to the state ownership on Jan. 5 upon a ...