On November 10, a divine service was held at the Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel (Antioch Patriarchate) in the Turkish city of Mersin, during which Russian-speaking believers from Mersin, Adana and other nearby cities prayed.
Hieromonk Palladius (Bystrov), a cleric of the Moscow Patriarchate who looks after the community of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, served the rector of the church at the Liturgy.
Divine services are performed in coordination with the Patriarchate of Antioch, whose canonical territory includes a number of provinces in the southeastern part of modern Turkey.
According to the telegram channel of the communities of the Moscow Patriarchate in Turkey, the following services in Church Slavonic for Russian-speaking believers will be held on November 30, December 21 and December 30.