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    The New Church of the Theotokos, or New Church of the Mother of God, was a Byzantine church erected in Jerusalem by Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565)....
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    Theotokos (Greek: Θεοτόκος) is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity. The usual Latin translations are Dei Genitrix...
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    The Intercession of the Theotokos, or the Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, is a Christian feast of the Mother of God celebrated...
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    The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known in the East as The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, is a liturgical feast celebrated...
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    Churches (except the East Syriac churches). It celebrates the "falling asleep" (death) of Mary the Theotokos ("Mother of God", literally translated as God-bearer)...
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    needed] The Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles show James the Just, the brother of Jesus, as a leader of the early Jerusalem church. The fourth-century...
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  • Turkey New Church of the Theotokos, 6th-century church in Jerusalem, Israel Nykirken ("the New Church"), a 12th-century church in Bergen, Norway The New Church...
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    The Ancient Church of the East is an Eastern Christian denomination. It branched from the Assyrian Church of the East in 1964, under the leadership of...
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    Madaba Map (redirect from Map of Madaba)
    Sepulchre, the New Church of the Theotokos, the Tower of David, and the Cardo Maximus. On Jerusalem's southwest side is shown Acel Dama (lit. "field of blood")...
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    to the site. The Sacred Tradition of Eastern Christianity teaches that the Virgin Mary died a natural death (the Dormition of the Theotokos, the falling...
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    The Cincture of the Theotokos is believed to be a relic of the Theotokos (Blessed Virgin Mary), now in the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos, which is...
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  • The Dormition of the Theotokos Church (Romanian: Biserica Adormirea Maicii Domnului) is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 18 Ion Lahovary Street, Constanța...
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    Catholic church and part of the Domaine national français located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, near the start of the Via Dolorosa...
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    Western Wall Tunnel (category Jews and Judaism in the Roman Empire)
    the Wall's northern end. Most of the tunnel is in continuation of the open-air Western Wall and is located under buildings of the Muslim Quarter of the...
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  • tribute to the Theotokos, as the hymn only gives more elaborately the sentiments condensed into two epigrams of Pisida found in her church at Blachernae...
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    since the time of Empress Eudocia by a church and monastery. A 1523 account of a visit to Jerusalem by a Jewish traveller from Leghorn uses the name Bâb...
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    Lions' Gate (redirect from The Lions' Gate)
     'Gate of the Tribes'), also St Stephen's Gate, is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It leads into the Muslim Quarter of the Old...
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    In the 1970s, while excavating the remains of the Nea Church (the New Church of the Theotokos), a Greek inscription was found. It reads: "This work too...
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    Zion Gate (redirect from The Zion Gate)
    Gate"), is one of the seven historic Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. Zion Gate was built in July 1540, west of the location of the medieval gate,...
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    Basel roll (category Foreign relations of the Carolingian Empire)
    lists measurements of four monuments: the New Church of the Theotokos in Jerusalem, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Holy Sepulchre complex...
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  • The Protection of the Theotokos Church (Ukrainian: Свято-Покровська церква) is an Orthodox temple in the central part of the village of Ilnytsia, Irshava...
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  • Thumbnail for Church of the Flagellation
    The Church of the Flagellation is a Roman Catholic church and Christian pilgrimage site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, near...
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  • Thumbnail for Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Szentendre
    (known as the Belgrade Cathedral as well as the Assumption Church and Theotokos Church) is the main and largest among Serbian Orthodox churches in Szentendre...
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  • Pope Theodore I (category Popes of the Byzantine Papacy)
    in Old St. Peter's Basilica. His feast day in the Eastern Orthodox Church is on 18 May. The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Theodore I". Encyclopædia...
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    Since the Feodorovskaya follows the same Byzantine Eleusa (Tender Mercy) type as the Theotokos of Vladimir, pious legends declared it a copy of that famous...
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  • Thumbnail for Dormition of the Theotokos Church, Vevčani
    The Dormition of the Theotokos Church is a Macedonian Orthodox former church in the village of Vevčani. The church is located near the very center of...
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    following the First Council of Ephesus of 431. It is one of the earliest churches known to have been dedicated to the Theotokos (Mary the God-bearer) in the entire...
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    the Old City of Jerusalem. The convent was built in 1857 by Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne. The site includes the Church of Ecce Homo, also known as the Basilica...
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    The Church of the East (Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ, romanized: ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon...
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  • Thumbnail for Church of the Parigoritissa
    church of the Greek city of Arta. Part of the building used to house the Archaeological Collection of Arta. The church was founded around 1250 by the...
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