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Byzantine Church
Byzantine Church
noun
- another name for the Orthodox Church
Example Sentences
In later years, as Christianity spread across the region, the temple became a Byzantine Church, and then with the coming of Islam, a mosque.
"We found a Byzantine Church when workers were digging to build Salahedin Street and stumbled upon a mosaic."
Close to Santa Sophia in the Seraglio grounds is the old Byzantine Church of Saint Irene, now painted an ugly pink, and used by the Turks as an armory and museum.
The Russian Church is a daughter of the Byzantine Church—the youngest daughter—and only dates from the close of the tenth century, when monks came to Kieff from Constantinople during the reign of Vladimir.
However different in origin and interest the strangely mixed hordes may be which constitute this giant realm, there exists one mighty bond which holds them all together,—the Byzantine Church.
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