The church is similar in architecture to the ancient Gračanica Monastery in Kosovo and therefore is considered the “Caribbean Gračanica.”
Unidentified gunmen attacked a Greek Orthodox church in Hama, Syria, on Wednesday, December 18, firing shots at its walls and attempting to remove the cross, according to local reports.
The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord is a cultural heritage site of regional significance.
On December 19, 2024, on the feast day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the St. Nicholas Klobukov Monastery in Kashin held patronal celebrations, marking the 600th anniversary of the monastery’s foundation and the 30th anniversary of the revival of monastic life.
The primate of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of Prešov, paid a pastoral visit to the Church of the Protection of the Mother of God in Smolník in eastern Slovakia earlier this month to consecrate its beautiful new wall iconography.