The Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar begins on 1 September – proceeding annually from the Nativity of the Theotokos to the celebration of Jesus ' birth in the winter ( Christmas ), through his death and resurrection in the spring ( Pascha / Easter ), to his Ascension and the Assumption of his mother ( Dormition of the Theotokos / Virgin Mary ) in the summer.

What became Mykhailovsky Square was the centre of this settlement and the site of its first Orthodox church, the Church of the Dormition, built in 1821 close to the seashore, as well as of a cemetery.

* The Church of the Dormition of Our Lady on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem.

The Church of the Dormition was destroyed in 1922 ; only the lower portions of some of its walls survive today.

The Orthodox Church also believes in the Assumption ( which is termed the Dormition ).

The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the Holy Maccabean Martyrs on August 1, the first day of the Dormition Fast.

Hagia Maria Sion Abbey | Dormition Church, situated on the modern " Mount Zion "

The Dormition Church ( right ) is located upon the hill currently called Mount Zion.

In icons of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the mandorla is used to depict sacred moments which transcend time and space, such as the Resurrection, Transfiguration, and the Dormition of the Theotokos.

Many theologians note by way of comparison that in the Catholic Church, the Assumption is dogmatically defined, while in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Dormition is less dogmatically than liturgically and mystically defined.

The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the Dormition not on a fixed date, but on the Sunday nearest August 15.

The Orthodox belief regarding Mary's falling asleep are expressed in the liturgical texts used of the feast of the Dormition ( August 15 ) which is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, and is held by all pious Orthodox Christians.

First recorded as early as 1495, Kondopoga retains a rare monument of Russian wooden architecture — the Dormition Church (), built in 1774.

* Church of the Dormition ( Built in 1584 ).

Nearby is St. Demetrius Orthodox Church in Blackman Township, also in the Midwestern American Diocese of the OCA and to the north is the Holy Dormition Monastery in Rives.

This district is dominated by the bell tower of the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God.

The tryzub was also found on the bricks of the Church of the Tithes in Kiev, the tiles of the Dormition Cathedral in Volodymyr-Volynskyi, and the stones of other churches, castles, and palaces.

Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God

Menounos attended the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Image: Orthodox_Church_from_Satulung. jpg | Dormition of the Theotokos Church

The relics of Metropolitan Alexius were first moved from the Church of St. Alexius ( which he had built ) to the Cathedral of the Dormition and then to another church in Moscow.

The Beijing community meets at the restored Church of the Dormition in the grounds of the Russian Embassy in Dongzhimen, and the Shanghai community at the Russian Consulate.

Tourist attractions in Nikopol include the ruins of the medieval fortress, the richly-decorated 13th or 14th-century Church of Saints Peter and Paul, the rock-hewn Church of Saint Stephen, the Bulgarian National Revival Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God from 1840, the Elia water fountain with an immured Ancient Roman gravestone featuring an epitaph, and the Vasil Levski museum house.

but his principal theme is that the intrigues of the Tories, `` our Popish or Jacobite Party '', pose an immediate threat to Church and State.

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.

Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.

* Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, principal patrons of the Roman Catholic Church, June 29

* Latin Rite, the principal rite within the Roman Catholic Church as distinguished, for example, from Orthodox Christianity

Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, is one of the principal documents of the Second Vatican Council.

After preaching briefly at Franklin Circle Christian Church ( 1857 – 58 ), Garfield gave up on that vocation and applied for a job as principal of a high school in Poestenkill, New York.

It was evidently at the behest of this circle of friends that Byrd now embarked on a grandiose programme to provide a cycle of liturgical music covering all the principal feasts of the Catholic Church calendar.

The word temple, however, is used frequently in the tradition of Eastern Christianity and particularly the Eastern Orthodox Church, where the principal words used for houses of worship are temple and church.

* The Church of St. James, also called Schottenkirche, a Romanesque basilica of the 12th century, derives its name from the monastery of Irish Benedictines ( Scoti ) to which it was attached ; the principal doorway is covered with very singular grotesque carvings.

The principal objective of the Oxford Movement was the defence of the Church of England as a divinely-founded institution, of the doctrine of the Apostolic Succession and of the Book of Common Prayer as a " rule of faith ".

However, it came to be considered that Easter should be held on a Sunday, the day of the resurrection, and the First Council of Nicaea in 325 fixed the precise date for celebrating Easter so that all Christian churches in all regions should celebrate the principal festival of the Church on the same day.

The Ashland Baptist Church, Village Hall, Masonic lodge hall, and Post Office remain the principal entities.

The penulimate principal, Benjamin Woodruffe, attempted to establish there a ' Greek College ' for Greek Orthodox students to come to Oxford, part of a scheme to make ecumenical links with the Church of England.

He consented to come with the principal representatives of the Byzantine Church to some place in the West where the union could be concluded in the presence of the pope and of the Latin council.

After the Scottish Reformation the principal parish kirk for Leith was South Leith Parish Church, originally constructed in 1483.

The group's principal aim was to embed Catholic doctrine in the legal structure of the Irish state, including recognition of the Catholic Church as the established church of Ireland, as it had been in Spain until 1931.

The Church was his principal ally, promoting it as a conservative principle of order while opposing nationalistic and liberal tendencies within the Church.

A principal objection to the 2SH is that it requires a hypothetical document, Q, the existence of which is not attested in any way, either by existing fragments ( and a great many fragments of early Christian documents do exist ) or by early Church tradition.

" The non-canonical introduction to the 1981 LDS Church edition of the Book of Mormon stated, " the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians.