Metropolitan Evgeniy celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Kazantranslated

Today, November 1, 2026, on the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost, on the day of remembrance of St. John of Rylsky, Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Evgeniy celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Kazan Mother of God Monastery in the city of Kazan.

His Eminence was served by the clergy and clergy of the monastery.

At the peaceful and solemn litanies, prayers were offered for the Russian army and for peace.

Let us remind you that the history of the Kazan Cathedral of the Mother of God Monastery in the city of Kazan began in 1798-1808, when, according to the project of I.S. Starov by Kazan architect F.E. Emelyanov built a church on the site of an ancient cathedral, erected in 1595. In 1932 the church was blown up.

On November 4, 2015, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan signed a decree on the reconstruction of the cathedral in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. On July 21, 2016, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' performed the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the cathedral being restored at the site of the appearance of the miraculous Kazan image of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The new church building, erected on a historical foundation, became one of the architectural dominants of the capital of Tatarstan.

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