The Wheel #40. Faith and Folk. Spring 2025

Folk Traditions and the Church: Some Remarks

Night was falling as we entered the church of the Annunciation in Gerakari, a lowland village a few kilometers outside Larissa, in Central Greece. The church is a late nineteenth-century building, with an old wooden ceiling and a rather simple iconostasis, but also with later additions, modern frescoes, a narthex with rabbeted wood and a[…..]

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