The Chinese Orthodox Church is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox Christian church in China. An organized Orthodox presence was maintained in the region as early as the 17th century as a child of the Russ
The Evenki, or Tungusy, are a Tungusic people of North Asia. In Russia, the Evenki are recognised as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North, with a population of 38,396. In China, the Even
Chinese Orthodox Church
…also a presence in Taiwan (where Archimandrite Jonah George Mourtos leads a mission church). Although many of them have adopted Tibetan Buddhism, the Evenks of both the Russian Federation and China are Orthodox Christian people. They are one of the Asiatic peoples who practice Orthodox Christianity, which…
An Evenki family in the early 1900s
An Evenki chum at an ethnographic museum in Ulan Ude, Russia
The lands of the Solons (Solonen) near Hailar (Chailar) in the late Qing Empire