Istanbul's last White Russians pray for church's survival By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - About 25 Russian Orthodox celebrated a divine liturgy on Friday for the first time in four decades at their rooftop church they fear may be demolished to make way for a tourism project. A choir chanted hymns and women wearing scarves bowed their heads at the crumbling 134-year-old St Elijah Church as they marked the prophet's name day according to the ...
Aug. 2, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News