On June 15, 2022, Senior Pastor Anatoli Leshchik of Yamburgsky Lutheran Church of Kingisepp, Leningrad Oblast, attended a meeting of the Interethnic & Interconfessional Relations Council under the Kingisepp District Administration. Its agenda included the following items: - status of the migration situation - countering terrorist and … [Read more...]
Skvoritsy Lutheran Church holds music festival
On June 13, 2022, the Lutheran Church of Skvoritsy, Leningrad Oblast, held the annual music festival “Sing to God a Hymn of Gladness.” This year, the locations from which musicians came to the festival were Gatchina, Pushkin, Skvoritsy, Yukki, and St. Petersburg. By now, this celebration of music and prayer has become a good tradition in the ELCIR … [Read more...]
Skvoritsy Lutheran Church holds organ recital, renews folk museum
On June 6, 2022, the Lutheran Church of Skvoritsy, Leningrad Oblast, held an organ recital. Following the recital, the church members and guests of the church including the administration head of Pudostskoye Rural Settlement exchanged impressions during a coffee & Karelian pasties reception in the church and saw the renewed display of the … [Read more...]
Music Festival of The Church of Ingria held in St. Petersburg
On April 23, 2022, St. Mary’s Lutheran Cathedral of St. Petersburg hosted a music festival which gathered congregational choirs from the St. Petersburg and West Ingrian Deaneries of the ELCIR, located in the St. Petersburg urban area and Leningrad Oblast. Opening the event, Bishop Emeritus Arri Kugappi offered a homily about spiritual vigilance. … [Read more...]
Dean Krylov performs Kalevala, upholds Ingrian Finnish culture
On April 16, 2022, Rev. Pavel Krylov, dean of the ELCIR West Ingrian Deanery, senior pastor of the Lutheran Church of Skvoritsy, participated with other musicians in a culture event at the District Central Library in Kolpino, Leningrad Oblast. He performed the Karelian-Finnish epic poem Kalevala on a kantele introducing Kolpino residents to the … [Read more...]
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