ABSTRACT

Chapter 3 outlines the process of setting up the temple each Sunday morning – a process that is understood as the transformation of heterodox building into the sacred space of an Orthodox temple – and frames this process of changing place in the context of Orthodox understanding of location and geography, as exemplified in pilgrimatic practices, both locally and abroad. The chapter outlines a few key pilgrimages, and considers how geographic locations blend in and out of each other as people and things move from one point to another.