Today, according to the Julian calendar, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Nativity of St John the Baptist - the only such feast after the Nativity of Christ and the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. And not for nothing - it celebrates not so much the miracle revealed by the Lord at that time, as the very appearance of the great prophet - the last of their number.

Although not so many great churches are dedicated to this holiday, there are interesting ones among them - for example, the princely Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist, which had almost became the city cathedral of the ancient Moldavian town of Piatra Neamț in Romania. Built for the court of Stephen the Great, the church has no dome, which only emphasises its monumentality and Gothic elevation, although the decoration is non-Gothic austere - perhaps the temple was originally intended for defence.