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The damage, likely from a Geran-2 drone, included destruction of a significant portion of the roof, damage to the main dome and cupola, and significant fires within the structure. This was the first time the structure was targeted in an armed conflict since World War II.

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Serbian Orthodox worshipers at an Easter service in Gracanica, Kosovo. (Credit: Armend Nimani - AFP)

Shepherds selling goats the day before Easter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Goat meat is a delicacy commonly consumed at religious feasts in Ethiopia. (Credit: Foodie International)

Shots from the Ethiopian Orthodox midnight Easter service at the Holy Sepulcher 

A march celebrating Orthodox Easter in Moscow’s Red Square (May 1918).  This would be the last big Orthodox celebration in the city for over seven decades.  Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow is in the centre of the second photo.  He would be arrested by the Bolsheviks in 1922, but not executed, probably because of his great influence.

A priest blesses the faithful as they collect cakes and painted eggs for Easter at Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Church in Kiev, Ukraine. (Credit: Evgeniy Maloletka - AP)

Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony the day before Orthodox Easter outside the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, West Bank. (Credit: Musa al-Shaer - AFP)

A Ukrainian Easter egg, or pysanky. (Photographer/artist: Yaroslav Lyakhnovsk)

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A traditional Easter procession of the Sorb community in Ralbitz, Germany, 2015. (Photographer: Matthias Hiekel - Agence France-Presse)

South Korean Christians at a 2015 Easter service at Yeonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. (Photographer: Ahn Young-joon)

Children at an Easter parade in New York City, United States. (Photographer: Tina Fineberg - Associated Press)

An Easter sunrise service on a beach in Newport Beach, California, United States. (Photographer: Michael Goulding - Associated Press)