Old and well worn bible at Debre Mariam church.

Icons placed on the walls of the Agoglan Monastery, a Christian place of worship in an area currently under Azeri control since being retaken during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. The area is close to...

Ceramic icons which were made and used in India to rid villages of smallpox, showing the goddess Shitala (the goddess of smallpox and other infectious diseases) riding an elephant on display at Dr Jen...

A monk pointing to one of the oldest Byzantine icons kept in the St Catherine's monastery museum. The Greek Orthodox monastery is among the oldest Christian monasteries, and the smallest dioceses,...

Worshippers attend an evening service led by Patriarch Filaret at Kiev's Volodymyrsky Cathedral.

Abbot Pavel of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery at his residence which lies within the sprawling monastery grounds.

A priest walks through a small church at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, which remains under the control of Moscow despite the split between the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches.

A woman kisses an icon as worshippers attend a morning service led by Patriarch Filaret at Kiev's Volodymyrsky Cathedral.

Worshippers attend a morning service led by Patriarch Filaret at Kiev's Volodymyrsky Cathedral.

Bishop Evstraty of Chernihiv (lay name Ivan Zorya), an aide to Patriach Filaret.

Metropolitan Epiphanius (Serhii Petrovych Dumenko), the appointed leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, holding the title of Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, conducts a service at St. Sophia...

Metropolitan Olexander Drabinko stands in front of a wall in his church that is hung with icons. He is one of the priests who defected from the Moscow-linked Orthodox church to the new Orthodox Church...

Visitors explore and pray in the caves of the Lavra monastery, home to the remains of some the most revered orthodox saints.

A woman passes an billboard advertising holidays at home in Switzerland, due to the pandemic, for mountain resort Verbier. The poster states 'This Summer, come and see Verbier' and exploits icons simi...

A decorated tent in Tahrir Square depicting Shiite icons alongside Muqtada al-Sadr and his father Muhammad. Since the beginning of October 2019 huge anti-government protests have shaken the country....