Society and Church: His Holiness Patriarch Kirill unveiled a monument to Alexander Nevsky in Petrozavodsk

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia conducted a divine liturgy at the Petrozavodsk Cathedral n. a. Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky and unveiled a monument to the commander in the garden by the cathedral.

According to the Petrozavodsk and Karelia Diocese, a meeting of Patriarch with people of Petrozavodsk took place at the Musical Theatre of Karelia. After events in Petrozavodsk the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church moved to the village Povenets of Medvezhegorsky district and visited objects of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. Later he visited Sandarmokh – a burial site of victims of Soviet political repressions during 1937-1938, and conducted a funeral service for the victims of terror.

In the end of his trip His Holiness Patriarch Kirill visited the Island Kizhi on the Lake Onega, which is 65 km away from Petrozavodsk, where he visited the Transfiguration Church and the Intercession Cathedral and familiarized with historical, architectural and ethnographic museum-reserve “Kizhi”.