On August 2, 2024, an organ was played for the first time in many years at Jakkima Church in Lahdenpohja, Karelia. In collaboration with the town’s administration and local donors, the ELCIR organized a music program in the City of Angels, an open-air exhibit of wooden angel sculptures. Cordial thanks to Yelena Maleva for the excellent … [Read more...]
Creation Exhibition opens in Kaliningrad
The Creation Exhibition produced by St. Anne’s Lutheran Church (Annenkirche) and Zerno Art Group from St. Petersburg opened in Kaliningrad on July 27, 2024. It is located on the premises of the former Ponarth Factory. Fallen into disuse, the factory’s space now houses a presentation of the biblical story of creation expressed through modern art. … [Read more...]
ELCIR and ELCR commemorate WW2 victims
On June 22, 2024, Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Russia which marks the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union in 1941, ELCIR deacon Aleksei Lozhkin participated in the ceremony of laying flowers at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg. In photo: ELCIR deacon Aleksei Lozhkin and Archbishop Vladimir … [Read more...]
Kristina Shilova gives a talk about ways to reach out with Christian values to the secular world
On June 20, 2024, the Journalists' House, a cultural center in St. Petersburg, hosted a seminar on Confessional Media and Prevention of Religious Extremism. One of the presenters was ELCIR Media Department Head Kristina Shilova. Kristina used the example of exhibitions, music concerts, lectures, and training courses organized by St. Anne’s Lutheran … [Read more...]
Darya Shkurlyatyeva lectures on historical musical instruments at festival in Veliky Novgorod
Darya Shkurlyatyeva (right in the attached photo), director of Mikael Agricola Choir at the Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, participated in the 8th Slovisha Festival of Musical Antiquities. On June 14, 2024, Darya gave a paper entitled “The Virsikannel as a Musical Instrument and a Teaching Aid” at a conference which took … [Read more...]
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