Hesychasm Lestovka Prayer beads Rosary Tasbih Greek: κομποσκοίνι, romanized: komboskíni; Russian: чётки, romanized: chyotki or вервица, vervitsa (literal translation);...

Eastern Catholic Christians use a knotted prayer rope called either a komboskini or chotki, with 100 knots, although prayer ropes with 50 or 33 knots can...

weighed less than a bag of 150 pebbles. These prayer ropes (also called komboskini) continue to be used in Eastern Christianity today. These ropes were only...

to be able to recite the rosary more easily. Orthodox Christians have komboskini ("prayer rope") rings with ten knots. The little-known but once common...