An ‘Orthodox Russia’ exhibition closed with awarding of its participants

On 3 June 2006, the Fourth All-Church ‘Orthodox Russia’ Exhibition was closed in the ‘Gostiny Dvor’ exhibition complex.

The deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Bishop Mark of Yegorievsk summed up the work of the exhibition of the first competition called ‘From Old Rus’ to New Russia.’

Bishop Mark said: ‘We see the faces of the real Russia at the annual ‘Orthodox Russia’ exhibitions, which we neglect in our every day vanity.’ He drew the audience’s attention to that fact that the exhibition had a new format this year as it included not only the exposition but also a ‘Reading and Education’ conference, a competition ‘From Old Rus’ to New Russia’, a musical festival and discussion of church and public matters arranged by the Synodal Department.

Bishop Marl congratulated the exhibition prizewinners and presented them the diplomas. He also awarded him with pilgrimage to the Holy Land and expressed his hope that they works will soon be exhibited in the Kremlin.

Thirty diocese and eleven Synodal Departments of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Byelorussian Excharchate, the Russian Orthodox Old Believers’ Church, 9 stavropegic monasteries, administrations of the Tula and Yaroslavl regions, the Kursk regional public foundation of Orthodox traditions ‘Korennaya Pustyn’, the Russian Union of Writers, joint stock company ‘Trekhgornaya Manufaktura’, publishing houses ‘The Faces of Russia’ and ‘The White Town’, the ‘Kinovar’ church workshop, the ‘Stezya’ jewelry workshop, the ‘Andrei Anisimov’ restores and other participants were awarded with honorary diplomas.

Bishop Mark expressed his particular gratitude to the ‘Restek’ joint company for its many-years-long work for organizing the ‘Orthodox Russia’ exhibition. The ‘Tserkovny Vestnik’ (‘Church Herald’) newspaper was awarded with a honorary diploma for information support of the exhibition.

The ‘Orthodox Russia’ exhibition was held in Moscow from May 30 to June 3. Over thirty thousand people visited the exhibition.

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