Today an Islamic suicide bomber attacked Saint Elijah Church in Damascus, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 50.

Pray for the repose of the dead, the health of the injured, and for the liberation of our brothers from the infidel threat.

Manege of the well-preserved neoclassical Tsaritsyno Regiment complex in Yamburg, Russia.

King Milutin's Tower, built in the late Byzantine style to protect the approaches to the Serbian monastery of Hilandar on Mount Athos.

Really narrow streets of Greek Patmos.

The now-conserved church of the Smolensk Icon of the Theotokos in Alabuzino, Russia, which resembles a real palace.

The photo was taken shortly before the conservation work started - now all vegetation has been removed from the building and around it, and the building itself is covered with a temporary roof, which cannot but be pleasing - but, of course, does not contribute to its romantic appearance.

Although the Oriental influence on Georgian architecture was not as strong as on Armenian architecture, it was still very significant - and like the Armenians, the Georgians adopted such a typically Oriental type of building as the caravanserai. However, most of the medieval serais now lie in ruins - and only in Tbilisi have a number of buildings of this category survived. All of them, however, were built after Georgia's accession to Russia - and therefore more resemble ordinary hotels, like this caravanserai of Queen Tekla, now serving as a revived Theological Seminary.

Probably modern stained glass window in the Holy Theotokos church in Roman, Romania, originally constructed in the Middle Ages and later reconstructed in Baroque and Neoclassical styles.

Miraculously preserved and restored in the conditions of total destruction of the surrounding historical buildings (and this in the centre of such an ancient city with such a neighbour!) - chambers of the Tver Court, a piece of pre-Petrine Moscow.

Old silk factory in Pančevo, Serbia, still in the process of restoration.

Luxurious Baroque in Russian province, destroyed by the Bolsheviks - the iconostasis of the Theotokos of Chersonesus Icon church in Kashin.

A real-life Grand Budapest (or in this case, rather, Grand Bucharest) hotel in the Romanian town-resort of Băile Govora, with a straightforward name "Palace"

Recently restored medieval post-Byzantine church of Cyricus and Julitta monastery in Dhuvian, Albania. Hopefully, the monastery itself will be restored one day as well.

A rare example of a restored Armenian house in the once beautiful city of Caesarea, Turkey.

Abandoned in the XVII century and restored nowadays, the medieval Serbian monastery of Majstorovina nearby Bijelo Pole, Montenegro.

Inside, even the templon was recreated - but, alas, not in the style of the original one.

The reconstruction of the Prechistenkaya Tower of the Novgorod Kremlin, based on historical descriptions and images. It was the parade entrance to the city fortress but collapsed after the enlargement of the gates and was replaced with a neoclassical arch.