{"id":3056,"date":"2026-06-11T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:39:14","slug":"orthodox-domes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=3056","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox domes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/pi-bril.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coptic_Orthodox_Church\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Coptic Christianity<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\"> is a form of Christianity that originated in Alexandria, Egypt. Coptic means Egypt. The apostle Mark was the 1st Bishop \u224842 AD. The Pope of Alexandria is the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, which has been separate but distinct Christian after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/phi-glow.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"67\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Cairo-Abbasiya-St-Mark-Cathedral.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"130\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Mark%27s_Coptic_Orthodox_Cathedral\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Saint Mark&#8217;s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/coptic-orthod-church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"128\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Coptic convents and churches<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church<\/span><\/a> dates back to Aksum&#8217;s (1st-10thC).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> The<\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> christianization in 330 AD of: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ezana_of_Axum\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">King Ezana<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/1stC-Axum-coins-Ccross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"156\" \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Golden, silver, bronze coins with<br \/>\nEzana&#8217;s head and Christian cross<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/ChrKingdom-Axum-own-coins-churchtype-GZwriting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"177\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Local design of coins, churches, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ge\u00ca\u00bdez\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Ge&#8217;ez language<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Mary-%20of-Xion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"179\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=umnZKQ41lrg&amp;ab_channel=\u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u201e\u00d9\u2026\u00d9\u02c6\u00d8\u00b3\u00d9\u02c6\u00d8\u00b9\u00d8\u00a9\u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u201e\u00d9\u2021\u00d9\u2020\u00d8\u00af\u00d8\u00b3\u00d9\u0160\u00d8\u00a9\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Ethiopean Orthodox Church<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_Our_Lady_Mary_of_Zion\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Axum<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Holy_Trinity_Cathedral_Ethiopia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holy_Trinity_Cathedral,_Addis_Ababa\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Holy Trinity Cathedral, Ethiopia<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wKcQN1gs6v0?si=EhB5uLwNfrvNRTGc\" width=\"222\" height=\"125\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ethiopian-Bible-English-Complete-Books\/dp\/B0CYMYLG4S\/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=1EKXFTVXR6X3V&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Xfx7FRF7QNA6j6DyuzTenOrH9_jnUnkakxChObNK4zJCLYCwpDgVudprvMukUHbXl2j0Xnbs57vBSobK5T7l5HXlWMFWI-a8pBQPg6nrRuk_TpeOyebEqeUpmKa6JG8-MW4XlkEw7h3jEbVpgsskmyEvN4BsS2wTjbdNw-yQwX5oSNocI1lCvTcdtsQzSefJ7H7yKAA7TbMlltELEzBQFrRXSZL93qAwHYThin3VSsIuddpNEe4_e1iLb2PmBaNj79-KEsWigrVRTfg3ADFOeKlE9tm6cuMlNhZns6FXr2M.L5ccq_IBy2GS8EyLQFW4P7OxeyxuITe1P0cncquWWKE&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=ethiopian+bible+in+english+88+books&amp;qid=1749066465&amp;sprefix=ethiopian+bible%2Caps%2C297&amp;sr=8-2-spons&amp;sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&amp;psc=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Ethiopian%20Bible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Ethiopia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"89\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Ethiopian &#8220;Twin Flames&#8221; Flag<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Church_of_St__George-Cairo.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_St._George_(Cairo)\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Greek Orthodox church in Cairo, Egypt<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">The Coptics took a divergent view on Christology from all other Christian churches, who split<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\"> into Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church <span style=\"font-family: Verdana; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East\u2013West_Schism\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">600 years later<\/span><\/a>. Then<\/span> 400 years after that, they split in Greek and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Orthodox_Church\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Russian Orthodox.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/greek-dome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"210\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Greek Island Orthodox Church<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/4-2011-pics\/greek-church-02.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"213\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=801\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Greek Orthodox Churches:<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/4-2011-pics\/greek-church-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Phi-waves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2019-pics\/Moscow_StBasil-Cathedral.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"332\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Russian Orthodox Cathedral: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Basil%27s_Cathedral\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">St. Basil<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2020-pics\/Nw-Military-Cathedral.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"188\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Cathedral_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Cathedral for the Military, Moscow<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/StPtrsbrg-C-savior-spilled-blood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"253\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_the_Savior_on_Blood\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Saint_Isaac's_Cathedral.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"229\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Isaac%27s_Cathedral\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">St. Isaac&#8217;s Cathedral, St. Petersburg<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Plan_of_St__Isaac's_cathedral.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"212\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"?p=3046\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Square base\/interior like Rome&#8217;s St Peter:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Saint_Isaac's_Cathedral_Interior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/pi-taart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"66\" height=\"55\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/St_Kazan-Cathedral.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"140\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kazan_Cathedral,_Saint_Petersburg\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">St. Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/St-Kazan-Iconostasis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">St. Kazan Iconostasis<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Nikolsky_Cathedral_SPB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"243\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Nicholas_Naval_Cathedral\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Church_of_the_Dormition_SPB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"246\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_the_Dormition_of_the_Mother_of_God_(Saint_Petersburg)\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Pokrovskaya-church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"162\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Pokrovskaya Church, St. Petersburg<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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Coptic means Egypt. The apostle Mark was the 1st Bishop \u224842 AD. The Pope of Alexandria is the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, which has been separate but distinct Christian after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD: Saint Mark&#8217;s Coptic Orthodox&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}