St. Elias Cathedral

Yes, we didn’t know the rules, and we arrived on Thursday. There are signs “You can’t call in,” the priests, before us, ran and no intelligible answers were given, except for civilian employees, the bell tower was closed, the church was turned into a semi-museum *, in the old church the desolation of the carpet weighs in the place of the icon, I decided that this is a new type of tallerancy *, so to speak, a place of worship for Muslims, and it is bolted to the screws and there is a table with candles in front of it, I have never met anything like that! Yes, by the way, this object has not had any plates, go at least to the altar, at least to the funeral. The general view of the monastery causes a feeling of desolation, and the cafe is a uniform tasteless iron structure to visit it is not at all hunting, but the guest house in the form of the old Kremlin is a sight for so much, and how much land and everything is planted close to root crops! And in the monastery itself there is a feeling that restoring works, general refining was done about 15 years ago! But all this is nothing, moreover, we could not taste the bread from the road, we simply did not have anyone to sell it, and didn’t evoke desire, no one offered to the ladies of scarves and skirts, but no one condemned either. We and the holy water was denied! They say you did not come on time, you are to blame! So you will think about it after that, and maybe in truth, but oh, it is better for Alah !!! The view from the cottages is wonderful, the further the better. Have to go your way! It just felt like the clergy were busy only with gluttony, because when we were in our time, they visited Mass at 2 times, and our noses were turned up from us! Probably not soon I will go there in the new ....

You can pray well here.

One of the oldest temples, a namolennoe place, emanations are very strong ... The Cathedral has an interesting story: it was built in the middle of the 18th century as a cemetery temple. In the following centuries / decades, the temple was rebuilt many times, rebuilt, thoroughly repaired, and in no way resembled the original one, little remained. Now Ilyinsky Cathedral is the department of the Bishop of Archangel and Kholmogorsky.

A place to visit more often! Speak with God.

Some young people are walking around ... like me, it is not clear where and why ... BUT Stepan Pisakhov is buried there !!!