Photo exhibition “The Church Helps” will open at the Church on the Bloodtranslated

As part of the conference on church social service, participants will attend the grand opening of the photo exhibition “The Church Helps.” The event will take place on October 29 at 9:00 at the Church on the Blood (Tsarskaya St., 10). The exposition was prepared with the participation of the Kommersant publishing house and is the first joint special project of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service and the Kommersant Publishing House.

The event participants will also visit the Church on the Blood and the Museum of the Holy Royal Family.

The exhibition is based on photographs taken in social projects of the Russian Orthodox Church in various regions of the country. A significant part of the photographs is dedicated to the work of the Yekaterinburg Orthodox Mercy Service. The exhibition includes stories of people who help addicts, homeless people, children and adults with disabilities, lonely elderly people and internally displaced persons.

Photo: Kommersant / Marina Moldavskaya

The purpose of the exhibition is to clearly show how the social ministry of the Russian Orthodox Church is structured. Kommersant photographers visited different regions and captured the daily work of church projects: they did not just state the fact of help, but showed the stories of people - those who help, and...