An interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders during a visit to a Muslim school in Damascus. From left: Sergei Ryakhovsky, senior bishop of the Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals); Sergei Melnikov, referent of the Presidential Executive Office for Internal Policy, executive secretary of the Council for Interaction with Religious Associations; Albir Krganov, Chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Moscow and the Central Region, member of the Civic Chamber; fifth from left: Imam-Muhtasib Ildar Ziganshin of the Tyumen Region; center: Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations; right: Archimandrite Pogos Vardanyan, Vicar of the Head of the Novonakhichevan diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
- Categories: Social Issues, Religion & Belief, Education
- Location: , Syria
- Event date: 04.02.2018
- Date published: 05.02.2018
- Author: Mikhail Voskresenskiy
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3836x2427px, 5Mb