Greek Easter

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Greek Orthodox beleivers offer prayers before an image of Jesus during the Apokathelosis, which marks the removal of Christ's body from the Cross which forms a key part of Orthodox Easter, in a ceremony at the Church of Dormition of the Virgin in Penteli, north Athens.

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Location: Athens Greece
Photo credit: © ARISTIDIS VAFEIADAKIS / Alamy / Afripics
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