The Spiritual Capital of the Moscow Region

Pilgrimage excursions to Kolomna can be of interest not only to churched people, but also secular people who want to learn more about the spiritual life. We will open the door to the spiritual world. Let’s imagine a unique opportunity to learn and feel “Holy Russia” through the shrines of the Kolomna land.

From our author's tour you will learn:

Which temple of ancient Kolomna is called the “Temple of Singing Angels”, which received this name because of the unusual acoustics: when a fraternal choir sings in it, it seems that the temple is in heaven. You will certainly see the prayer paintings of the early XVIII century and will be able to touch the great shrines of the Kolomna land, immersed in the church past of Kolomna Posad. You will have a unique opportunity to taste the monastery dishes, which are prepared for the brethren from Gzhelev dishes and in the interior with a Russian oven. Fragrant and very appetizing monastery meal, which you can taste Russian dishes with a cup of aromatic tea. Visit the oldest temple of the Moscow region, a building with elements up to Mongolian architecture. Man, getting into the temple, thus completely detached himself from the outside world, remaining in spiritual concentration, one on one with God, before the strictly executed iconostasis. The temple has a masonry of the end of the 13th century, as well as lemekh - oblong planks, concessional forms, serving to cover the chapters, drums, tents of churches in Russia. The heads of the temple, covered with lemech from aspen, golden in the sun, over time, aspen lemech acquires warm, silvery tones and becomes very durable. You will learn the history of the Kolomna beast and its connection with the teaching book of the Old Testament “Job the Long-suffering”. From the shrines of the 14th century, the icon of St. John the Forerunner “Angel of the Desert”, written in 1390 by the icon painter of the school of Theophanes the Greek in Byzantine traditions, has been preserved. The icon is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. *Meet the Museum of Antimines. Antimins (Greek antimension – “instead of the throne”) – four coal boards of linen or silk matter with sewn particles of the relics of saints, on which the sacrament of the Eucharist is performed. The antimins depicts the position in the tomb of Jesus Christ and the four evangelists. It is illuminated by the bishop, is on the throne in the altar of the temple.