Christmas is celebrated on the night of March 6-1 on January 7 - worship will be held in all temples. Public transport in Christmas night will prolong work. Read what restrictions will be due to the coronavirus epidemic, and where to watch online broadcasts.
Worship, addresses of temples, where to watch online broadcasts
Festive services will be at midnight, in the morning and in the evening on January 7th. The entrance to the temples is limited due to coronavirus. You can watch live broadcasts on the Internet.
In the temples and on the adjacent territory, a mask and distance of 1.5 meters are required. If the maximum permitted number of parishioners inside the temple will be exceeded, then someone will have to stay on the street. But it will be heard - organize audio report. Therefore, it is necessary to dress on the weather. Those who stay at home can watch live broadcasts of worship services on the Internet.
"Please refrain from visiting temples in case of manifestations of ORVI symptoms and other diseases that others can be infected," said "Zelenograd.ru" in the Zelenograd degree. The head of the External Church Communications Department Metropolitan Volokolamsky Hilarion advised the elderly, not to visit the christmas temples. He noted that the elderly parishioners priests can confess and germinated at home.
Nikolsky Temple: Nikolsky passage, 1. Broadcast
Philaret Temple: Philaretovskaya Street, 3. Broadcast
Temple Alexander Nevsky: 14th neighborhood - Aleksandrovka Street, 1a. Broadcast
Temple George Victorious: Georgievsky Avenue, 17th neighborhood. Broadcast
Temple Sergius Radonezhsky (assigned to the temple of ArchReart Mikhail): 16th neighborhood - Panfilovsky Avenue, 23. Broadcast
Spassky Temple: Andreevka, Starovoyevskaya Street, 72. Broadcast
Worship in the Church of Christ the Savior (Cathedral) will show on TV, live broadcast here.
Transport
On the night of January 6-1 on January 7, up to three nights, buses 400 will operate (repository, to the metro River Station) and 400 tons (Tushinskaya metro station) will operate. Metro and MCC work up to two nights.
By the end of the night service to the closest to the temples stops, buses will be served: 1, 2, 12, 19 - to Nikolsky Temple.9, 11, 29 - to the Philaret church.5, 16 - to the Temple of Alexander Nevsky.
What is celebrating?
In Orthodoxy, the Christmas of Christ is considered the second great holiday after Easter. Christians believe that God, Savior of the world embodied on this day. In the temples on the eve of the holiday morning and evening worship merge into one all-night vigil - such services are twice a year, for Christmas and Easter.
Folk traditions - carols and divination, starting from the Christmas Christmas Eve on January 6 to baptism on January 19. Carols are poems and songs for which they give sweets or coins. Saty fortune telling - for girls, on the narrowed. There are no relationships to church traditions.