Excursion "Holy Places of Muscovy"
From 5 000₽ per group
Description
Type: Single-day activity
Duration: 2 hours
* Moscow cannot be imagined without holy places, where pilgrims from all over the world flock. We suggest you go there with us!
During the walking tour you will learn:
• Which icon did Marina Tsvetaeva call the heart of Moscow?;
• What is Komsomol Christmas and how did the celebrants treat the Iverskaya Chapel?;
• how the miraculous icon of the Kazan Mother of God was found and where the most famous Old Believer, Archpriest Avvakum, served.;
• where Simeon Polotsky, an outstanding theologian of the 19th century, taught;
• how the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the tallest building in Moscow, was built and destroyed, and why the grandiose Palace of Soviets was never built in its place.
- We will visit the Iveron Chapel to worship the wish-fulfilling icon.
- Then we will visit the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, which saved Moscow in a terrible time.
- After that, we will go to the Zaikonospassky Monastery.
- We will visit the main cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- At the end of the tour, we will have one of the most beautiful city panoramas.
A car tour will open up to you:
• how are the legendary military commander Tamerlane and the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow connected?
• what healing power do the holy spring of the Pokrovsky Monastery and the touch of the relics of the blessed elder Matrona possess?
• What secrets does Russia's most famous convent, which is under UNESCO protection, keep?
- During our pilgrimage tour, we will visit the holiest sites of the ancient city. Let's start the journey at the walls of the ancient Sretensky monastery.
- We will learn the history of the monastery, see the great shrines and visit the Church of the New Martyrs.
- Then we will visit the very heart of the capital and worship the Iveron Icon.
- Let's go to the Novospassky Monastery.
- Then we will visit the Pokrovsky Convent, where the relics of the most famous saint on Moscow soil, the elder Matrona, rest.
- If desired, we can finish our trip here or finish the tour at the walls of the Novodevichy Monastery.
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Starting point
* Sretensky Monastery.Finish point
* Novodevichy Monastery