A ceremony to transfer the shrine containing the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov from the vaults of the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg) to the Russian Orthodox Church. Museum Director Stanislav Kuchinsky, fourth left, and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, center, during the ceremony to transfer the relics to the Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent.
- Categories: Human Interest, Lifestyle & Leisure, Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Religion & Belief
- Location: St.Petersburg, Russia
- Event date: 11.01.1991
- Date published: 02.11.2021
- Author: Sergey Kompanichenko
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 91-496, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5264x3524px, 6.2Mb