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Alexander Lukashenko presented for the Nativity of Christ to Metropolitan of Minsk and Pavel Zaslavsky an icon of this holiday. The icon was created in the icon painting workshop Zharov. As described in the workshop, the iconography of this image was created on the basis of the fresco of the 12th century from the Transfiguration […]

Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha Dimitry and the temple’s vicar Vadim Kotov welcomed Alexander Lukashenko into the temple. Alexander Lukashenko gifted an icon of Jesus Christ the Almighty to the temple. The icon was painted using the wax tempera technique in the style of the Vetka icon painting school. The head of state received an

The Belarusian head of state met with Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl Pavel, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus. Attending the event were also the laity, representatives of Orthodox brotherhoods and sisterhoods, and Sunday school students. “I wish this holiday bring you peace, understanding, and wellbeing. I wish the fulfillment of your desires, at least those

According to St. John of Damascus, «the whole Earth is a living icon of the face of God.” As such, this particularly powerful presence of icons has come to the Vatican museums with 33 individual works of art. Through the Belarus icon paintings from the 17th-21st centuries, one can find not only the face of