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Think you’ve seen every kind of Orthodox church? Think again. Some of them will stop you in your tracks — not because of golden domes or delicate frescoes, but because they look like something straight out of a medieval siege. Tucked away in the Belarusian village of Synkavichy, the Church of St. Michael the Archangel…

Did you know California’s first Orthodox church wasn’t a grand cathedral — but a humble wooden chapel? Not in San Francisco. Not in L.A. We’re talking Fort Ross, built by Russian promyshlenniki in the 1820s on the edge of the Pacific. No full-time priest served there, but in 1836, a legendary visitor arrived — Father…