One religious group left this country to settle on Mount Athos and believed that the name of God isGod himself.
One religious group left this country to settle on Mount Athos and believed that the name of God isGod himself. This is the easternmost country where the forged Book of Veles inspires neopaganism.Religious symbols from this country include a slanted beam at the low end of a three-bar cross. Ahistoric schism in this modern-day country resulted from reducing the seven prosphora to five andthe use of a two-fingered Sign of the Cross. The (*) Buryat shamans live in this country, which gave theterm "shaman" to Europe. Old Believers were persecuted by Nikon, the Patriarch of its capital. Islam isstill practiced by Kazan Tatars in this country. For 10 points, name this Orthodox Christian country wheremany onion domes sit atop Saint Basil's Cathedral.
One religious group left this country to settle on Mount Athos and believed that the name of God isGod himself.
Russian Federation [or Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; or Russian Empire]