Easter in Belarus

The Saturday before Easter we took a metro ride to visit a new Russian Orthodox Cathedral that is being built in Minsk, Belarus.

People were lined up with baskets full of bread to be blessed with holy water. It is tradition that if your basket is blessed you will have good health all year long.

The white church is the old one they are using now, the brown is the new one that is being built. In fact they have been building on it for several years.