Prayer Service in Memory of Nicholas II Visit to Vladivostok

Bishop Innocent of Ussuria, vicar of the Vladivostok diocese, led on May 25 with the blessing of Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorsky Vladimir, a service of a public prayer at the Triumphal Arch of Tsarevich Nicholas. During the divine service, the choir of the Assumption Church of Vladivostok sang.

The prayer service was performed on the occasion of the 128th anniversary of a visit by the Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich to the South Ussuri region. In 1891, on May 25, the future Sovereign Nicholas II descended to the shore of the Golden Horn Bay - in a place where grateful descendants then installed the Nikolaev arch (triumphal gate).

Representatives of the Organizing Committee for the Perpetuation of the Memory of a Visit to Vladivostok by the Tsesarevich prayed at the divine service as well as representatives of the Cossacks and the public organization "Double-headed Eagle". attended the service, in memory of the spiritual and cultural traditions seen in the Russian Far East.