• Situated on the highest and oldest part of the city, the Holy Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary originated sometime between the 4th and 5th-centuries...
  • The church dates back to the VII-IX centuries. Nowadays, it remains as the ruins. The main part of the church is a nave, which ends with a semicircular apse.
  • ...Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, foundations were consecrated for a church, to be dedicated to the Protection of the Holy Virgin.
  • Protection of the Holy Virgin of the Western American Diocese located in Los Angeles, CA.
  • In the middle of the XIX century on the site of the chapel great St. Basil”s Cathedral was built, which was dismantled during the persecution of the Church (1936).
  • Church fathers saw as well, in some characters of the Holy Book and in some events in it symbols and signs of the Virgin Mary.
  • Kontakion of the Protection (Tone 3). Today the Virgin doth stand before us in church, and with the choirs of saints invisibly prayeth for us to God.
  • The Miracles of the Holy Virgin. ... The climate is favourable, as the spot is in the heart of the Rhodope Mountains. The summers are breezy and the winters mild.
  • The towering cupola of the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth stands over the cave that tradition holds to be the home of the Virgin Mary.