The Archdiocesan cathedral's Paschal triduum: the Epitaphios lamentations on Holy Friday, the Resurrection at midnight on Saturday, and the Agape Vespers on Pascha Sunday.
St Sophia’s on Moscow Road is the Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom, seat of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, and the room where Greek London keeps its Easter. The Orthodox reckoning is its own: Pascha fell on Sunday 12 April in 2026, a week after the Western Easter, and the three days that carry it ran from the Friday.
Holy Friday opened with the Great and Royal Hours at nine and the Apokathelosis, the taking down from the Cross, at eleven. The Epitaphios Thrinos, the lamentations sung at the tomb, began at seven in the evening and ran to half past nine. On Holy Saturday the First Resurrection was kept in the morning with the Vespers and Liturgy of St Basil the Great, and the cathedral filled again at half past ten at night for the Matins of the Resurrection. The Anastasi itself was proclaimed at half past eleven, and the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom carried through to two in the morning.
Pascha Sunday closed the triduum quietly, with the Vespers of Love at ten. Nothing across the three days is ticketed and nothing is on a list. The cathedral sets out the full order of services, in Greek and English, in a programme it publishes a month at a time.