Society and Church: "Orthodox Church in the Kola North" Exhibition in Murmansk

"Orthodox in the Kola North: to the 340 Anniversary of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in Varzuga Village" exhibition was opened at Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore. The church is a unique monument of northern wooden architecture, the oldest surviving today wooden temple of the Kola Peninsula.

The exhibition includes about 200 objects of religious purpose (from the late XVII to early XX centuries) belonging to the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (was erected in 1674) in Varzuga village. The icons of the exposition have been restored at the Russian Art, Science and Restoration Center named after the Academician I. A. Grabar (Moscow).

The exhibition will grab the attention of historians, arts critics, theologians, regional researchers, as well as a wide range of museum visitors interested in the history of the Kola North and the problems of Orthodox culture revival. The exhibits have both an artistic and a historical value, as a source for learning a history of Orthodox Christianity, the wooden architecture of the Russian North, and the spiritual culture of the Pomors.