Believers attend the Liturgy and a memorial service held by Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna during events marking the Commemoration Day of Victims of Political Repression in the stone church of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in the Butovo, Moscow region, Russia. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,762 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the Soviet secret police.
- Categories: Religion & Belief, Human Interest
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 30.10.2023
- Date published: 30.10.2023
- Author: Ramil Sitdikov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 7031x4328px, 26.3Mb
- Job-ID: 8ae7f0b9f9b85746