| 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. |
| The altar, intricately carved in limewood, painted and gilded, represents the Dormition of the Virgin, and took its creator 12 years to make. |
| The feast celebrated in the Byzantine calendar as the Dormition on 15 August became the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in the west. |
| 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. |
| Upon the transferring of the metropolitan seat in 1299, the Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir was chosen as the new cathedral. |
