What Does "postoiannye" Mean?

[flyhye]

Can anyone explain what "Postoiannye" means?

Here is a link with a paragraph where the word is being used.

http://www.hetq.am/eng/photostory/#

 

Thank you

[kakachik77]

permanent

[MosJan]

as a word it permanent - mshtakan

 

but also it'sn religion - molokans - Postoiannye the mainstream branch of the Molokan religion

 

see hetq web site

http://www.hetq.am/eng/society/0410-ml.html

[MosJan]

you can also see > http://molokane.org/molokan/Index.htm

 

Two major subgroups of Molokans migrated to America. The Postoiannye (Constant or Steadfast, i.e., unchanged or original) Molokans were, and remain, centered around Potrero Hill in San Francisco (south of downtown). The Pryguny (Jumpers, also called Leapers, Skippers, Prancers, or Dancers), settled in Los Angeles and Central California. Although the Pryguny were a much smaller group in Russia than the Postoiannye, they were more severely persecuted and consequently migrated in larger numbers. The two groups differ in some points of doctrine, domestic custom and ritual.

 

Almost all of the descendants of the Molokans who came to America reside along the West Coast, except for about one hundred families who moved to two areas of Australia in the early 1960s, and a few families who moved to South America. About two-thirds live on the East Side of Los Angeles, where they have nine churches -- or more properly, gatherings: Molokans use the Russian word sobraniia. Most of the Molokan churches look like quite ordinary buildings, not unlike Quaker meeting houses. Prayer meetings can be and frequently are held in private homes since it is the gathering and not the building that is sacred.

 

The largest community outside of Los Angeles and San Francisco is near Kerman, west of Fresno, in central California, and other live mostly in communities with churches in central California, Arizona, Oregon, and Australia. (See map of Molokan communities in America.)

[skhara]

So these people are not Christians?

 

I thought molokans were kind of a Russian version of Amish.

[flyhye]

thanks everyone for replies