Tag: winter scenes

Photos of the Day for March 17, 2018

Immersion (kupan’nje – купаньне; also called Jardan’ – Іардань) on the January 19 Orthodox feast of the Baptism of the Lord/Theophany (Vadokhryshcha).  River Moustva, Tsjerablichy 2018. The custom of purification by total immersion in icy mid-winter water is pre-Christian, and is not recognized by the Orthodox church in Belarus as an official part of the… Continue reading Photos of the Day for March 17, 2018

Photo of the Day for January 18, 2018

Polesia in winter:  Vjalikaje Maljeshava 2017. Палесьсе ўзімку: Вялікае Малешава 2017 г.  

Photos of the Day for January 10, 2018

Polesia in winter:  Rubel’ 2011.   Палесьсе ўзімку: Рубэль (Рубель) 2011 г.   Churches of Belarus (part CCXXXV):  Orthodox church of the Archangel Michael (1796). Цэрквы Беларусі (частка CCXXXV):  царква Сьвятога Міхала Арханёла (1796 г.).           Churches of Belarus (part CCXXXVI):  Orthodox church of the Image of the Savior, Not Made By… Continue reading Photos of the Day for January 10, 2018