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Divine Liturgy on island as a symbol of Russian Orthodoxy

The photo was taken on Bolshoi Shantar Island in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Once a year, a priest from the Khabarovsk diocese travels to this island by helicopter and by sea to conduct the Divine Liturgy here. For several decades now, the island has been completely deserted and a lot of bears have bred on it and behave extremely aggressively. Therefore, the liturgy is held under the control of an armed ranger who closely monitors the safety of the environment

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2024
Date Uploaded: 12.2024
Photo Location: Russia
Camera: Canon EOS R5
Copyright: © Oleg Semenov