| 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 doctrine's development is closely related to a feast devoted to Mary that passed from a general celebration in her honour to one celebrated on August 15 commemorating her dormition, or falling asleep. |
| The feast celebrated in the Byzantine calendar as the Dormition on 15 August became the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in the west. |
| On 16 January 1547, at age sixteen, Ivan was crowned with Monomakh's Cap at the Cathedral of the Dormition. |
| Upon the transferring of the metropolitan seat in 1299, the Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir was chosen as the new cathedral. |
| 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. |
