| Although the dormition of Mary had been a frequent iconographic theme in the East, the theme of the Assumption was less prevalent there. |
| Chaired by Patriarch Laham,a mass and a religious celebration were held today at the Orthodox Church of Dormition in al-Zaitoun quarter in Damascus to celebrate the feast day. |
| On 16 January 1547, at age sixteen, Ivan was crowned with Monomakh's Cap at the Cathedral of the Dormition. |
| Additionally, yesterday someone burnt the guest book in the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, after the Pope conducted a mass there earlier in the day. |
| In 1475 the Bolognese architect Aristotele Fioravanti came to rebuild the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin, which had been damaged in an earthquake. |
| The altar, intricately carved in limewood, painted and gilded, represents the Dormition of the Virgin, and took its creator 12 years to make. |
