Orthodox Christmas

For most Orthodox Christians in the world, Christmas is January 7th. After a big feast day like this, one is able to find hundreds of very cool pics from around the world on the news servers, such as:

Georgia


Serbia (in a fire gutted church)


Macedonia


Bethlehem


Bosnia


Russia


And Greece...where they are clearly on the new calender :)


Comments

Mimi said…
Beautiful photos, thank you for sharing James.
12:17 PM
Thomas Ham said…
the church in Macedonia has an amazing iconostasis!
10:40 PM
Anonymous said…
I think " Greece " is actually Constantinople. Looks like church of St Stephen of the bulgars in background.
2:49 AM
fdj said…
And "Constantinople" is actually Istanbul...but we all know the truth don't we David?

hehehe

I've learned a new word: irredentist.

:)
7:57 AM
Anonymous said…
It looks to me like that last photo is a celebration of Epiphany somewhere and not Nativity. Note the cross sailing through the air toward the water. You posted this on Jan 12, so it must be a new-calendarist group in the old country (looks like Moscow to me, but then all them Russky rivers look alike!)

Cheers! Basil
9:09 PM
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