Eastern Orthodox in Roanoke Rapids, Virginia

This large church holds two services each Sunday, and it offers a number of services to its parishioners. The church also rents its annex facility for public events during the week.

This Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Nativity of The Theotokos, which is derived from two Greek words: Theos, which means "God" and tikto, which is associated with giving birth. The title essentially means "the one who gives birth to God," a name that was used for the Virgin Mary at a council of the church that happened in Ephesus in the year 431, emphasizing that Christ was both fully God and fully human.

St. Mary has an Orthodox Christian congregation and belongs to the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America (ROEA). The church's congregation is diverse, with a quarter of it of Romanian ancestry and nearly 40 percent converted from other faith groups or religions.