Videos tagged with "chapel"

The Lutheran congregation of Holy Trinity in Moscow [01:56]
Евангелическо-лютеранский приход Святая Троица. Приходская жизнь и деятельность в течении нескольких минут! Evangelical Lutheran Holy Trinity parish. Parish Life and work for a few minutes!
Tags: Moscow, Soviet Union, Pastor, Gospel, Youth, Russia, Lord, Holy, Ministries, Preaching, United, Fellowship, Ministry, Community, Apostolic, Praise, Chapel, Sacred, Bishop, Choir, Sunday, Orthodox, Grace, Revival, Calvary, Hope, Missions, Pentecostal, Mass

450 Anniversary of St Basil's Cathedral [04:13]
The spectacular St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century to commemorate a military victory. It is easily the most famous sight on Red Square. History St. Basil's was built to commemorate the capture of the Tatar stronghold of Kazan in 1552, which occured on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin. The cathedral was thus officially named Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat (the moat being one that originally ran beside the Kremlin). But the cathedral was popularly known as St. Basil's Cathedral, after St. Basil the Blessed (aka St. Basil Fool for Christ; 1468-1552), almost from the beginning. Basil impressed Ivan in 1547 when he foretold a fire that swept through Moscow that year. Upon his death, Basil was buried in the Trinity Cathedral that stood on this site at the time. The Cathedral of the Intercession aka St. Basil's Cathedral was constructed from 1555 to 1560. Legend has it that after it was completed, Ivan had the architect blinded in order to prevent him from building a more magnificent building for anyone else. (In fact, he went on to build another cathedral in Vladimir.) In 1588, Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich added a ninth chapel added on the eastern side to house the grave of St. Basil. In modern times, St. Basil's came very close to falling victim to Stalin, who resented that it prevented his soldiers from leaving Red Square en masse. But the architect Baranovsky stood on the cathedral's steps ...
Tags: Saint, Basil's, Cathedral, Moscow, virtual, tour, 3D, model, russia, real, religion, 450, Anniversary, St, Petersburg, Peter, the, Great, Peterhof, Palace, Petrodvorets, Summer, Cascade, fountains, gardens, lower, upper, park, birthday, mountain

Kizh Island [01:46]
Kizhi is an island on Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia (Medvezhyegorsky District), Russia with a beautiful ensemble of wooden churches, chapels and houses. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Russia and a World Heritage Site. The island is about 7 km long and 0.5 km wide. It is surrounded by about 5000 other islands, most of which are very small. The world famous Kizhi Museum is one of the largest out-door museums in Russia -- was founded in 1966. The museum collections contain 83 pieces of the wooden architecture. The core of the collection is an outstanding sample of the wooden architecture -- the architectural ensemble of the Kizhi Pogost of Our Savior built on Kizhi Island in the 18 th and the 19 th centuries. In 1990 the ensemble entered the World Heritage List of UNESCO. In 1993 the Kizhi Museum was entered the List of Cultural Objects of Special Value of the Peoples of the Russian Federation by Order of the President. More than 150 thousand people visit the museum every year. More than 5 million people have visited the museum so far. The museum has very rich collections of the items connected with the cultural history, which demonstrate the subject environment of the past and reveal interrelations of the cultural traditions of the different peoples living in Karelia.
Tags: Russia, Kizhi

Russia2010.wmv [03:46]
A look at our outreaches in Russia over the last seven years. We are planning on going back in August of 2010.
Tags: Calvary, Chapel, Fullerton, Russia, Outreach

100_0282.MOV [00:34]
small chapel in the Krasnodar square (=small park) in Krasnaya street and a fountain, Krasnodar, Russia
Tags: Krasnodar, Russia

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