Eastern Orthodox Church Architecture - Gallery

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  Our Lady of Ljeviš was converted to a mosque during the Ottoman Empire and then back into an Orthodox Church in the early 20th century. It is on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

• Tbilisi Sameba Cathedral A Georgian Orthodox church in Tbilisi

• The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria.

• The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.

• The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Łódź was built through the contributions of the city's mercantilist elite as well as the Tsar of Russia.

• A wooden miracle of Kizhi, part of an ensemble of wooden churches, chapels and houses. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Russia and an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• Architectural-ethnographic museum "Khokhlovka" in Perm Krai. Church of Transformation of the Lord (1707) and a watchtower (17th century).

• Tokyo Resurrection Cathedral (Japanese: Nicorai-do, after Nikolai of Japan).

• A wing of Peterhof Palace near Saint Petersburg houses a private orthodox chapel of the Russian tsars.

• The Orthodox Church in Białowieża, Poland, on the edge of the Białowieża Primaeval Forest.

• Orthodox churches are common in Alaska, particularly in the southern and southwest portions of the state.

• A Serbian Orthodox church in Nocaj, Vojvodina

• Svetitskhoveli Cathedral A Georgian orthodox church in Mtskheta Georgia Between 1010 and 1029.It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Georgia and an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• The Orthodox Church of the Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa is a Polish Orthodox church in Częstochowa honoring the Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa, considered to be one of the country's national symbols.

• The Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Sofia in Harbin, China.

• The church of the Theotokos Orans in Vilnius demonstrates typical features of developed Byzantine revival: exposed two-tone, striped, masonry; four symmetrical apses tightly fused into the main dome, creating a tall triangular outline; arcades blending into the domes; and a relatively small belltower, clearly subordinate to the main dome.

• Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, the most famous example of an Orthodox church built in the style of classicism.

• The Supraśl Lavra is undergoing conservation work since the collapse of Communism when the Polish government returned it to the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.