Arlington, VA Author Publishes New Book

Around the World of Christian Orthodoxy-Five Hundred Million Strong: The Unifying Aesthetic Beauty, a new book by Dr. Joan Markessini, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.

The Orthodox Church endured many wars, political conflicts and shifts that affected its role in the states where its faithful reside, apart from its estrangement from the Roman Catholic Church in the eleventh century. Surviving with it as a faith in many Eastern European countries, Greece and some parts of the Middle East and Africa are many of its religious churches or edifices, preserved with all their glory and splendor. Dr. Joan Markessini-inspired by Jules Verne's classic tale Around the World in Eighty Days-has compiled photographs of majestic churches of the Eastern Orthodox in Around the World of Christian Orthodoxy-Five Hundred Million Strong: The Unifying Aesthetic Beauty. Along with the discussion of architectural style, materials and uniqueness of each of those buildings from antiquity, she added a brief history that will forever be etched in every element of the houses of worship where belief never withers.

About the Author

Dr. Joan Markessini's desire to explore the history of Orthodox Christianity has taken her across North America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. During her travels, she has visited Orthodox Christian churches and monasteries in different parts of the globe and was awestruck by their symbolic architectural designs.

Around the World of Christian Orthodoxy-Five Hundred Million Strong: The Unifying Aesthetic Beauty is a 52-page paperback with a retail price of $15.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4349-1486-6. Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania published it. For more information or to request a review copy, please visit our virtual pressroom at http://www.dorrancepressroom.com or our online bookstore at www.dorrancebookstore.com.