The Week in Pictures: November 1 – 7, 2021

The joy of Orthodox life is the same in distant Africa and Romania. Please see our selection of photos taken between November 1 and 7.

The church founded by the Holy Prince Neagoe Basarab in Curtea de Argeş, Romania, on an autumn day. Photo: Facebook / Ovidiu Marian Vlăsceanu
Father Nectarie offers food to African children in Rwanda. Photo: Facebook / Father Nectarie
The cemetery of the Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery at night. Photo: Facebook / Protosyncellus Iustin Popovici
Izbuc Monastery in north-western Romania: Laying the foundation stone for the Church of the feast of the Placing of Holymartyr George’s Relics in Lydda. Photo: Facebook / Mănăstirea Izbuc
Piano lessons watched over by the Mother of God. Photo: Mădălina Anghel
Young people at the consecration of the St. Nicholas Shrine in New York. Photo: GOARCH.org
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I consecrating the cross in front of St Nicholas Shrine in New York. The shrine has been rebuilt on the site of the former Twin Towers which collapsed during the 09/11 attack. Photo: GOARCH.org
Light and shadow at Bucharest’s Patriarchal Cathedral. Photo: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu
Uganda boy carrying an Orthodox icon. Photo: Facebook / Iakovos James Ssengendo
St George’s icon and holy relics were placed in the centre of the church at St. George-Cloșca Monastery in the county of Constanța, for the feast of the Placing of the saint’s relics in Lydda. Photo: Schitul Sf. Gheorghe – Cloșca
The members of the Bruchsal Parish (Germany) celebrated their first patronal feast with His Grace Sofian  of Braşov. Photo: Serafim Armanca
Lit vigil lamps at the icon of the Saviour in the courtyard of Bucharest’s Radu Vodă Monastery. Photo: Ana Avram
Auxiliary Bishop Benedict of Bistrița with Bishop Neophytos of Kenya at the consecration of a parish church in the Archdiocese of Cluj, Romania. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț Chifa
The Jerusalem Patriarchate celebrated St. James, the Lord’s relative, according to the unrevised calendar. Photo: Jerusalem Patriarchate
A little piece of heaven next to Putna Monastery, in northern Romania. Photo: Marin Cosmin
The glass protection of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God reflects the image of the faithful participating in the divine service at Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral. Photo: Moscow Patriarchate
The Pentecost – Titan Church tower dominates the landscape in Bucharest’s Titan Park (IOR). Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Pilgrim at the holy relics of saints Nektarios and Ephraimus the New at Bucharest’s Radu Vodă Monastery. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene

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