New Jerusalem Monastery- Istra, Moscow Oblast, Russia
New Jerusalem Monastery is a major male monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is situated at the bank of Istra river in the city of the same name, 40 km west of Moscow. Easily reachable by public transport (trains and buses).
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A “Silver Necklace” Gift: Small Historic Towns to Be Restored Under New Putin Initiative
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The state will additionally allocate 5 billion rubles for the best municipal improvement projects in small towns and historical settlements. Vladimir Putin stated this today in Kolomna where he visited the Forum of Small Towns of Russia.
Russian Art - 4 Architecture: Late Muscovite Period
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Land of the Art:
Russian culture is an hybrid generated from habits of many civilizations that shaped this great multicultural state, and it is the result of its development for several centuries, being deeply rooted in the culture of the first eastern slavs.
The Late Muscovite Period goes from 1630 to 1712. After the Period of Troubles, the church and state were in bankrupt, and they couldn't pay more constructions.
The rich merchants of Yaroslavl financed many cathedrals in XVII century, with many bulbous domes and tended roof.
Elijah the Prophet, Yaroslavl: the first churches were asymmetric, like this. It follows the tradition of Middle Muscovite Period. The interior has frescoes of byzantine influence. They were commissioned by Ulita Makarova in 1680, and were painted by a team of 15 people leaded by Guriy Nikitin and Sila Savin. They represent scenes of the life of Elijah and also normal life scenes.
St. John Chrysostom, Korovniki: it follows the aesthetic of the previous one but greater. The bulbous domes are very big compared with the own building.
St. John the Baptist, Yaroslavl: it is the best of all these churches, and the most beautiful. It has fifteen domes. The belltower was built later, in mid-1690. The interior has more than five hundred frescoes about christian saints, St. John the Baptist and biblical themes. They were painted by Dmitri Pleyanov and Fiodor Ignatiev in 1694-1695.
The churches of Moscow of XVII century are very well decorated, but they are more little.
Ascension of Uglich: I'm not even sure if the image I put is of this church to be honest...
Hodegetria, Vyazma: one of the most beautiful buildings. It has three tended roofs, similar to candles. It is called so by Virgin Theotokos Hodegetria, the Virgin that guides saying that the Child is the path to salvation.
Nativity, Putinki: many tended roofs, following the aesthetic of the one of Vyazma.
The Patriarch Nikon said that tended roof constructions were not byzantine-typical, and so he declared them anti-canonical. The tended roofs were forbidden.
Voskresensky Monastery: this is the residence of Nikon. It is also called New Jerusalem Monastery or Resurrection cathedral. Byzantine forms are recuperated.
When the tended roofs were forbidden, the muscovite architects used bracket arches, called kokoshniki.
Kazan cathedral, Moscow: do not confuse with the one in St. Petersburg. It is in the Red Square. It is a reconstruction, because Stalin destroyed it in 1936.
Holy Trinity, Nikitniki
St. Nicholas, Khamovniki
Trinity, Ostankino
Great Cross, Kitai-gorod: this one was destroyed by Stalin and was lost.
Russian architecture became purely decorative, influenced by ukrainian and polish baroque. The first russian baroque churches were little chapels built in zones of family Naryshkin, near Moscow, so the name of Naryshkin baroque is frequently used in this style. Some of these churches are similar to towers, with cubic or ortogonal floors.
Protection of the Theotokos, Fili: composition similar to a stair, with belltower.
Ascension, Pokrovka: it seems more like a jewelry work than a building.
The Stroganov patronized many baroque buildings.
Nativity, Nizhny
At beginning XVIII century it is interesting to name the wooden churches in the north of Russia.
Intercession, Vytegra: it has 24 domes.
Kizhi Pogost: the legend says that the carpenter Nestor only used one axe, that when the building was done, he threw it into the lake Onega while he said there wasn't and won't be other church like this. The most important building of this complex is the Transfiguration church, with 22 domes. Near it is the Intercession church, with 9 domes. The amazing thing of these constructions is that they were built without any nail.
As an add...
Palace of Aleksei Mikhailovich: the artistic reconstruction of interiors was based in historical sources and authentic prototypes.
Take a look at this link for more russian wooden churches:
Music: Pólyushko-Pole by Irfan Kaya [Полюшко-Поле]
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Chanting & Prayers at Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, Podgorica, Montenegro
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April 15, 2012 Russia_Russia's leaders attend Easter service in Moscow
Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, led an Easter service during the night at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
The service was attended by 6,000 people including President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.
During the service, the patriarch and president handed each other decorated Easter eggs.
Patriarch Kirill also received the Holy Fire delivered from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. After lighting candles, Kirill led a procession around the cathedral.
Easter, which marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion, is the main holiday of Christianity.
Services are being held at the more than 30,000 Russian Orthodox churches around the globe.
The Great Day of Annihilation
Abandoned Russian church 'once held key to Berlin'
The Church of Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, located in the village of Yaropolets in the Moscow Region, has borne witness to numerous important historical events throughout the years, from the German occupation in World War II to religious repression under Khrushchev.
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The USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941 was a new phase of anti-religious persecution in the Soviet Union following the anti-religious campaign of 1921–1928. The campaign began in 1929, with the drafting of new legislation that severely prohibited religious activities and called for a heightened attack on religion in order to further disseminate atheism. This had been preceded in 1928 at the fifteenth party congress, where Joseph Stalin criticized the party for failure to produce more active and persuasive anti-religious propaganda. This new phase coincided with the beginning of the forced mass collectivization of agriculture and the nationalization of the few remaining private enterprises.
Many of those who had been arrested in the 1920s would continue to remain in prison throughout the 1930s and beyond.
The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labour camps. Theological schools were closed, and church publications were prohibited. More than 85,000 Orthodox priests were shot in 1937 alone. Only a twelfth of the Russian Orthodox Church's priests were left functioning in their parishes by 1941.In the period between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to less than 500.The campaign slowed down in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and came to an abrupt end after the commencement of Operation Barbarossa. The challenge produced by the German invasion would ultimately prevent the public withering away of religion in Soviet society.This campaign, like the campaigns of other periods that formed the basis of the USSR's efforts to eliminate religion and replace it with atheism supported with a materialist world view, was accompanied with official claims that there was no religious persecution in the USSR, and that believers who were being targeted were for other reasons. Believers were in fact being widely targeted and persecuted for their belief or promotion of religion, as part of the state's campaign to disseminate atheism, but officially the state claimed that no such persecution existed and that the people being targeted - when they admitted that people were being targeted - were only being attacked for resistance to the state or breaking the law. This guise served Soviet propaganda abroad, where it tried to promote a better image of itself especially in light of the great criticism against it from foreign religious influences.
Easter Procession at the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity (April 20, 2014)
Beautiful spiritual Russian Easter Orthodox chant + bells!
Воскресение твое Христе спасе - Thy ressurection, o Christ our savior.
Стихира Пасхи - Russian Orthodox church Easter (Paskha) music.
Воскресение Твое, Христе Спасе,
Ангелы поют на небеси,
и нас на земли сподоби
чистым сердцем
Тебе славити
St Michael's Golden Domed Cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine
The original, built by Prince Sviatopolk in 1108, was destroyed by the Soviet regime in the 1930s for having no historical value. The reconstructed cathedral was completed in May 2000. Its sky blue exterior and glittering golden domes add a stunning layer to a cityscape that has become a mix-mash of crumbling ancient and newly reconstructed. A sobering reminder of Stalin's inhumane policies stands to the right as you exit the church grounds. This is a monument to the victims of Holodomor (starvation): A famine orchestrated in part by the Soviet leadership in an attempt to squash the peasantry, as many as 10 million Ukrainians perished from 1932-33. Keeping watch over the square are the reconstructed statues of Princess Olga, Apostle Andrew, St. Cyrill and St. Mephodius.
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CHRIST IS RISEN.Χριστός Ανέστη.Христос Воскресе.4-27-08 [3]
(3) Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Cathedral Penna US on 4-27-08
His Grace Bishop of Eastern America Dr Mitrofan (Kodic) His Grace Bishop of Eastern America Dr. Mitrophan (Kodic) was born in 1951 in the village of Ljusa, Sipovo, in Bosna. His elementary studies he completed in 1966 and the Seminary at Monastery Krka in 1971. He received the monastic tonsure on the eve of the feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple in 1970 and on the following day was ordained as a hierodeacon by Bishop Stefan (Boce) of blessed memory. He completed the Theological Faculty in Bucharest, Romania in 1975. In 1977, after completing his studies, he was assigned as supplent of the Seminary of the Holy Three Hierarchs in Monastery Krka. He passed his professorship exam in 1979 and was assigned as assistant Rector of the Seminary at Monastery Krka in 1980 and as Rector in 1987. He was elected as a Vicar Bishop of Toplica in 1987 and appointed as assistant to the Administrator of the Diocese of Midwestern America, Dr. Sava of blessed memory. He was appointed as Administrator of the Diocese of Midwestern America in 1988, where he remained until he was appointed as Bishop of Eastern America in 1991.
In 1997 Bishop Mitrophan successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at the Theological Faculty of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade on the theme: The Mystery of Christ According to the Epistles to the Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians of the Holy Apostle Paul.
Besides the above mentioned dissertation, Bishop Mitrophan has published many theological works. He translated from the Romanian, Professor Dr. Dumitru Staniloae's Community and Spirituality in the Orthodox Liturgy three volumes of Orthodox Dogmatics, The Immortal Image of God, Orthodox Moral Theology. Also from Romanian he translated The Romanian Patericon I and the Dictionary of Orthodox Theology by Hieromonk Joankije Balan. His own book, The Teaching of St. Apostle Paul on the Church published in 1991 in Chicago, has been translated into English.
Currently his book Introduction to the Holy Scriptures, the New Testament is being printed and is scheduled to be released in January 2006. Also, the book The Gospel Image of Christ by Professor Dr. Dumitru Staniloae is being prepared for print.
Bishop Mitrophan is Professor of New Testament at the St. Sava School of Theology in Libertyville, Illinois.
P A V L E
By the grace of God
Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, with the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church -- to all the clergy, monastics, and all the sons and daughters of our Holy Church: grace, mercy and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, with the joyous Paschal greeting:
CHRIST IS RISEN!
The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Pascha, 2008
Χριστός Ανέστη.
Христос Воскресе!
Ваистину Воскресе!
CHRIST IS RISEN ! RISEN INDEED !
Love Melina Rom.1:16
The Naval cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Kronstadt
Никольский ставропигиальный Морской собор в Кронштадте
Russian Orthodox Easter #2 2008
Easter vigil (Pascha) at Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco on early morning of April 27, 2008. Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Пасхальная Ночь, Крестный Ход Orthodox Easter
Russian Orthodox Easter procession.
19.04.09
Касимовские Сказы
Могут ли мирно и дружно сосуществовать в одном городе две разных религии и культуры? Наш фильм рассказывает о старинном городке Касимове в Рязанской области России. Когда-то он назывался Городец-Мещерский и был основан в 1152 году князем Юрием Долгоруким как крепость для защиты юго-восточных границ княжества от кочевников. Свое не очень русское название город приобрел в 15 веке от имени хана Касима, получившего город в кормление от великого московского князя Василия Темного.
«Касимов — это царство, но царство заколдованное. Он никому с первого раза не открывается, никому» — утверждает один из героев нашего фильма. Но мы попробуем заглянуть в это прекрасное «заколдованное царство».
Документальный фильм из цикла «Провинциальные музеи России»
2015 г., 26 минут, автор и режиссер Мария Волчанская
11/4/12 - Holy Virgin Dormition Church - 95th Anniversary Celebration
95th Anniversary Celebration of Holy Virgin Dormition Russian Orthodox Church
Mckeesport, PA
Hierarchical Divine Liturgy served by His Grace, Bishop George, Fr. Dimitri D. Ermakov, and area clergy.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Paschal Matins 2
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GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST. GEORGE 2017
The Church of Saint George is the major shrine for the fourth-century Christian martyr Saint George and is located in Lod, Israel.
The current church, built in 1870, shares space with the El-Khidr Mosque..
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem received permission from the Ottoman authorities to build a church on the site of a previous basilica. The church is built over a ruined 15th-century structure, and occupies the north end of the nave and left-hand aisle of the earlier church, from which there survive two apses - which, contrary to the normal rule, face north rather than east.
The Ottoman authorities stipulated, that part of the plot be made available for a mosque. Consequently, the current Church of St. George incorporates only the northeast corner of the Byzantine basilica. The prayer hall of the adjacent mosque contains a column that once stood in the nave of the basilica. The church contains the sarcophagus of St George.