Serbian Orthodox Church facts for kids
The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. It is the second-oldest Slavic Orthodox Church in the world (after the Bulgarian Orthodox Church). It is made-up of a majority of the population in Serbia, Montenegro, and the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Images for kids
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Trojeručica meaning "Three-handed Theotokos" is the most important icon of the SOC, and the main icon of Mount Athos
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Serbian Patriarch Danilo III, fresco from the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć
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An example of the Serbo-Byzantine style in the Gračanica monastery in Kosovo (World Heritage Site)
See also
In Spanish: Iglesia ortodoxa serbia para niños
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