Specifically, for the past four months, he’s spent long hours 65 feet above the altar in St. John the ... at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church. The icons are not worshipped, but rather ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a chapel now, with a new stained-glass window.

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, sent a message of congratulations on Friday to ...