| The feast celebrated in the Byzantine calendar as the Dormition on 15 August became the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in the west. |
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| The altar, intricately carved in limewood, painted and gilded, represents the Dormition of the Virgin, and took its creator 12 years to make. |
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| The decisive turning point in the scholarship of early El Greco came out of the blue in 1983, when the Dormition of the Virgin shown in the London exhibition was found. |
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| On 16 January 1547, at age sixteen, Ivan was crowned with Monomakh's Cap at the Cathedral of the Dormition. |
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| Upon the transferring of the metropolitan seat in 1299, the Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir was chosen as the new cathedral. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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