A new icon ‘The Assembly of the New Martyr and Confessors of Solovki’ is brought to the Solovki Monastery

A new icon ‘The Assembly of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Solovki’ has been recently brought to the Solovki Monastery, official web-site of the Solovki Monastery reports.

Painted on the icon are clergymen and laymen who were imprisoned in the Solovki special concentration camp, the places of their exploits as martyrs, major events in the history of the camps and of the restored to life Solovki Monastery.

Ms. Olga Klost-Volodina who has worked as icon-painter for twenty years painted the icon. She also pained iconostases for the churches in Moscow and its vicinity and for an Orthodox church in Totnes, United Kingdom.