A special ceremony was held at the Iskenderun St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church on the occasion of the ‘Commemoration of the Dead’, which is the symbol of each year’s entry into the Easter Fasting Period.
After the ceremony led by Church Fathers Dimitri Yıldırım and Yusuf Nicholas Papasoğlu, the priests and the members of the congregation went to the cemetery together and prayed at the graves.
Before the Easter, the Orthodox of Iskenderun, who started the ‘Meat Fast’, performed the Traditional ‘Day of Commemoration of the Dead’ on Saturday. The members of the congregation came to the church for this special ritual by making bread called ‘Kıddes’ and Wheat Dessert called ‘Slika’.
While praying to the souls of all the dead and lighting candles in the Commemoration of the Dead, the members of the Iskenderun community, who distributed bread to the souls of their loved ones who migrated to Eternal Life, went to the cemetery with fathers after the ceremony.
While each member of the congregation lighting candles and burning incense at the grave of their relatives, Fathers Dimitri Yıldırım and Yusuf Nicholas Papasoğlu visited the graves one by one and prayed. The prepared wheat was poured over the graves. (SAT-7 Turk/İlyas Edip TERBİYELİ-İskenderun)
