On December 2, 2023, an exhibition entitled The Nativity opened at Annenkirche—St. Anne’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg.
During a music concert, the following ministers of different Christian denominations recounted the Nativity story together:
Bishop Ivan Laptev, The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia;
Archbishop Vladimir Provorov, The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia;
Senior Pastor Yevgeni Raskatov, St. Anne’s Lutheran;
Priest Janusz Prusinowski, The Roman Catholic Church;
Priest Nikolai Babkin, The Russian Orthodox Church;
Pastor Andrei Gornovski, The Russian Joint Union of Evangelical Faith Christians (Pentecostals);
and Pastor Anton Tretiak, Evangelical Christians/Baptists.
The listeners were immersed in the events of Jesus’ birth as the story unfolded with a music accompaniment by Orchestra 1703. The concert’s program included works by J. S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms and some of the famous Christmas carols. Paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Botticelli, Breughel, Fra Angelico, Jan van Eyck, Caravaggio, Giotto and other masters, uniquely montaged by Darya Kotyukh, Veter Art Studio, were projection-mapped onto the church’s walls.
Attached are the photos of some of the locations at the exhibition.
