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Christianity and Eastern Cultures (of Africa & Asia)


The Power of the Written Word:  Coptic Manuscript of the Sermons of Shenoute of Atripe


 

Syriac Manuscript depicting Moses before Pharaoh


 

Constantine & Helena, as imagined by Christians in medieval central Asia


The Caucasus:  Armenia & Georgia


 

Armenian Manuscripts


 

Liturgical Vessel from Georgia


 

Monasticism in Georgia:  A Georgian Stylite


 


Axum (Ethiopia) and Nubia


 

Church of St. Mary of Zion (Small green building on right supposedly holds Ark of the Covenant)


 

Ethiopian Illuminated Manuscripts: Judgment of Solomon


 


 

A Military Saint


 


 

A Processional Cross


 

Ethiopian Bishop with Madonna & Child, 11th Century


 

Map of Nubia