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Archangel Michael Orthodox Church
Orthodox Liturgy, Sunday School, Russian Traditions
Since 1922, Orthodox families of Cleveland whose roots reach back to Russia, Ukraine and other Slavic lands have gathered at Archangel Michael parish in Broadview Heights: Sunday Divine Liturgy, a choir, Sunday school and children celebrations in the Russian tradition. The doors are open to everyone looking for an Orthodox church.
More detailsZyrovicy Mother of God Belarusian Orthodox Cathedral
Belarusian Cathedral of the Zhyrovichy Icon of the Mother of God
A tiny jasper image of the Mother of God, about six by four centimeters, by tradition shone in 1470 on the branches of a pear tree in Belarus, and it is to this image that the cathedral in Strongsville is dedicated, where a Belarusian community of Cleveland has gathered since 1951.
More detailsSaints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church
The 1927 Russian Church, Mother of Lorain Orthodoxy
Forty-eight young Russian men who had recently set foot on American soil gathered on November 30, 1913, in a home in Lorain to found a parish, and today the Church of Saints Peter and Paul is called the mother church of Orthodoxy in this city.
More detailsSaint Sergius Russian Orthodox Cathedral
Orthodox Cathedral in Parma: Liturgy, Russian School, Services of Need
A cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, where vigil is served on Saturday evenings and a school runs alongside the church: Law of God, Russian history, the Russian language and church singing. Here you can be baptized, married, request a memorial service and arrange for a priest to visit your home.
More detailsSt. George Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Church With Relics of the Great Martyr George
A young parishioner drew the name of St. George from a bowl of slips of paper in the summer of 1988, when a group of Orthodox believers in Cincinnati gathered to found a church in the Russian tradition and by the old calendar: in 2013 the cornerstone of the new church was blessed with a relic of its heavenly patron.
More detailsSt. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral
The Thirteen-Cupola Cathedral Since 1896
Thirteen cupolas for Christ and the twelve apostles, a cross-shaped plan modeled on the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow and a parish founded by Russian settlers in 1896: St. Theodosius remains the oldest Orthodox parish in the state of Ohio and a jewel of the Tremont neighborhood.
More detailsSt. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church
A 1916 Church With a Mosaic of St. Nicholas
A building raised in 1916 by Ukrainians as a Greek-Catholic church survived a fire in 1962, received a new dome and a mosaic of St. Nicholas above its entrance in 1984 and became an Orthodox church: a small parish in Lakewood whose story began in Ukraine back in the nineteenth century.
More detailsSt. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral
Ukrainian Cathedral With a Mosaic of the Baptism of Rus
The old Parma city hall was bought at auction for eleven dollars and turned into a chapel, and a few years later a cathedral with golden domes in the style of St. Sophia in Kyiv rose on the same land: this is how a Ukrainian parish that began in 1924 with a liturgy in a hall on West 14th Street found its home on State Road.
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St. Patricks Cathedral in New York
Gothic silence among the skyscrapers
On Fifth Avenue, surrounded by glass, flagship boutiques, office towers and the constant movement of Midtown Manhattan, St. Patrick’s Cathedral looks almost impossible. Its white marble walls and Gothic Revival spires seem to have been carried here from another age, yet that is exactly its power. It does not disappear among the skyscrapers. On the contrary, it makes the city around it feel even more dramatic. In New York, where everything reaches upward, this cathedral reminds us that height can be not only architectural, but spiritual.
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