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Nikonites, also known as Nikonians, are followers of the main current of the Russian Orthodox Church, which accepted the reforms undertaken during the reign of Patriarch Nikon—as opposed to the Old Believers, who rejected the reforms and maintain strong religious traditions that predate them.
Nikon (Russian: Ни́кон, Old spelling: Нїконъ), born Nikita Minin (Никита Минин; 7 May 1605 – 17 August 1681) was the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving officially from 1652 to 1666.
Nikōnion (Ancient Greek: Νικώνιον; Latin: Niconium) and Nikōnia (Ancient Greek: Νικωνία) [1] [2] [3] was an ancient Greek city on the east bank of the Dniester estuary.
Nikonians is an online community website [1] [2] [3] dedicated to providing and sharing information among digital and film photographers, focusing but not limiting itself on those using Nikon digital and film cameras plus accessories.
After the coming of the Bolsheviks to power in 1917 and the Civil war, the Old-Rite Church was subjected to innumerable sufferings and persecutions, just as its former rival, the "Nikonian" Russian Orthodox Church.
Old Believers, also called Old Ritualists, [a] are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666.
A page from the Nikon Chronicle. The Nikon Chronicle (Russian: Никоновская летопись, romanized: Nikonovskaia letopis') is a compilation of Russian chronicles undertaken at the court of Ivan the Terrible in the mid-16th century.
Holy Trinity, Hospitality of Abraham; by Andrei Rublev; c. 1411; tempera on panel; 1.1 x 1.4 m (4 ft 8 in x 3 ft 8 3 ⁄ 4 in); Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow). Russian icons represent a form of religious art that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity after Kievan Rus' adopted the faith from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in AD 988. [1]