Eastern Orthodox church architecture constitutes a distinct, recognizable family of styles among church architectures.These styles share a cluster of fundamental similarities, having been influenced by the common legacy of Byzantine architecture from the Eastern Roman Empire.Some of the styles have become associated with the particular traditions of one …

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, is a communion comprising the fourteen or sixteen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.. Each constituent church is self-governing; its highest-ranking bishop called the primate (a patriarch, …