Bilingual Parish Website
A bilingual parish website with a living liturgical calendar, built for newcomers and lifelong parishioners alike.
Business overview
The Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos is a Romanian Orthodox parish in Santa Rosa Beach, on Florida's Emerald Coast. Its community includes Romanian-speaking families and English-speaking neighbours discovering Orthodoxy for the first time.
The website serves both: every page works in English and Romanian on the same address, and service times, feasts, fasting periods, news, and bulletins are managed by parish staff from a simple admin panel.
Challenges & solutions
The challenge
Small parishes often rely on printed bulletins, social media posts, and word of mouth to share service times and feast days. Newcomers struggle to find when to come and what to expect, and bilingual communities end up with information in only one language.
What we built
A custom bilingual parish platform. Visitors switch between English and Romanian with one click, and the homepage always shows the next service.
A liturgical calendar combines parish events with feasts, saints, and fasting periods — calculated from the Orthodox Paschal cycle and from reviewed data attributed to the Romanian Patriarchate. Staff manage schedules, sacraments, news, PDF bulletins, ministries, and giving details in Filament, and an email list with double opt-in lets members choose English or Romanian emails.
Case study
From the homepage to the feast-day calendar, explore how visitors find service times and parish life in either language.
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A welcome for newcomers and the next service, with the announcement bar above.
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A sticky Service Times button on every page.
Key features
Technology
Mobile experience
Many parishioners check service times on their phones on the way to church. A sticky Service Times button stays in reach on every page, in English or Romanian.
Project status
Protection of the Theotokos Romanian Orthodox Church is in active development and running on a private staging server. The screenshots above are from that deployment; a public link will appear here at launch.
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