Hand-language is used during divine services at a church in Yaroslavl

The parishioners of the Church of the Prophet Elijah at the Kuznechikha village near Yaroslavl are special and divine services are conducted here especially for the deaf and dumb.

On the Day of the Annunciation, deaf children and their teachers came to the Elijah Church from a special boarding school in Rybinsk. It was the children’s first attendance of a church service, the Yaroslavia television and radio station has reported.

The Church of St. Elijah is so far the only church in Yaroslavl and its region to adapt church services for the deaf. Regrettably, many of those who come here cannot hear the church music, but now they can understand the sermons, Father Antony, rector of the church, said.