Hymns of the Eastern Church

Hymns of the Eastern Church is a book by John Mason Neale, first published in 1862. This collection presents English translations of ancient Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox hymnody, together with explanatory notes and an introductory essay that places the material in its liturgical and historical context.

Neale's careful renderings made a wide range of Greek and Syriac hymn texts accessible to English-speaking readers and clergy, bringing the riches of Eastern liturgical poetry into Victorian Anglican devotional life. The book has had lasting influence as an early and authoritative anthology of Eastern hymnography in English, valued both by students of liturgy and by congregations seeking older devotional forms.

It is frequently consulted for translations of canons, stichera, and troparia, and is often recommended in studies of Byzantine hymnody, comparative liturgy, and the historical development of Christian hymn tradition.