MODERN Leicester is well-known for being multi-cultural, but just how multi was brought home to me when I saw a sign in the city centre for a Serbian Orthodox Church.
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| The sign behind protective church railings |
St George's was built from 1823-7 as an Anglican place of worship, but was taken over by members of the Serbian Orthodox confession in the 1980s.
It was renamed (slightly) as St George The Great Martyr, and the church's feast day moved from April 23 to May 6 to reflect the Gregorian calendar instead of the older Julian version.
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| The approach is very much what one might expect from a church built in the early 1800s |
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| Hard to tell whether these are genuine gargoyles (decorative waterspouts) or merely grotesques (decorative carvings with no functional purpose) |
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