A monument to those who martyred for the faith of Christ erected in the Laura of St. Alexander Nevsky

A monument to those who suffered martyrdom for the faith of Christ was erected on September 22, 2005, opposite the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in St. Alexander Nevsky’s Laura in St. Petersburg.

This two-meter-high granite cross with an icon of the Saviour in the middle, executed in the Novgorod ‘triumphal’ style, was designed by Evelina Solovyeva. Earlier, a commemorative stele, designed by the same artists, was installed in the main monastery of the northern capital city to mark the 2000^th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ. The monument of Russia’s new martyrs and confessors was produced in the stonemasion shop of the Vozrozhdenie Production.

The right side of the cross bears the inscription: ‘To the clergy, the religious and the faithful who suffered for the faith of Christ’. Inscribed on the reverse side is the Gospel’s verse: ‘For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him’.