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Russian Churches
Religion has long played an important role in the culture and
lives of the people of Russia. It has influenced government,
created holidays and given people hope for better things during
the most desperate times. Russia became a Christian country in
988 when Prince Vladimir of Kiev adopted the new religion. This
laid the foundation for the Russian Orthodox Church which is
still the religious denomination in the country. However things
have not always gone well with religion in Russia.
For as many as seventy years the official religion of the
country was ‘atheism’. That was when Communism gripped the
country and a new period of religious intolerance was begun.
Russian Churches
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Cathedral ||
Novopassky Monastery ||
Monastery of
the Tans figuration ||
Monastery of the
Optina Pustyn ||
Donskoi Monastery ||
Church of the
Intercession || Znamensky
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