Putin attending the service in the church where his parents were baptized – RIA Novosti

VILLAGE Turginovo (Tver region), January 6 – RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in a Christmas service at the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in the village Turginovo Tver region.

In 2011, Putin has visited the temple, where his parents were baptized. Then he gave the abbot of the icon of the Holy Virgin unknown artist, dated from the beginning of the XIX century.

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For the parishioners, who also met Christmas at Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, the appearance of the President was a surprise advance them about it not been warned.

Putin is going to the temple, he came to the icon and put a candle. The head of state during a Christmas service stood about children – students of spiritual and educational center in the village. In a new building built for children will be carried out various activities, they will be able to visit the clubs. On the ground floor is equipped for children’s gym, swimming pool.

The President also inspected the building of the spiritual and educational center of the temple. The center was built after the rector requested by the head of state. The abbot of the head of state has shown a sports hall, swimming pool, craft room, a conference room, a refectory. According to the rector, the building is ready to receive the children.

The president presented the temple of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God.

Temple Turginovo

For the first time sources mention the wooden churches in Turginovo in the first half of the XVII century. The first stone church appeared in this place about the middle of the XVIII century. In 1911, there were baptized the parents of Putin, who come from these places and lived in nearby villages, as evidenced by found in the archives of the Tver region confessional statements.

The village is also an old cemetery where buried grandmother Putin – Elizabeth A. Shelomova.

Putin regularly visits temples during major religious holidays. In 2015, Putin attends Christmas service in the village church in honor of the Holy Virgin is located near Voronezh.

The head of state also met Christmas in Sochi. In 2014, on the night of January 7, he visited Sochi new church built next to the Olympic park. In 2013, Putin visited the Christmas service in a three-altar temple in honor of the Mother of God “Peschanskaya” and “Vladimir” in the Trinity-St George’s Monastery in the village of Forest Adler district. A year before he came to serve in the Transfiguration Cathedral of St. Petersburg, where he was baptized.

Putin attended the Christmas liturgy in the Church of the Holy Martyrs Alexander and Antonina Rimsky in the village Selishche Kostroma region, in Candlemas Church in the village of Straw Karelia, Prokopyevsk Cathedral in Veliky Ustyug in the New Jerusalem Monastery. In 2006, Putin celebrate Christmas in a church in Yakutsk, which at that time was 50 degrees below zero.

In the capital, as of January 7 the head of state remained in 2001 – the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and in 2000 th when Putin, the then acting president, attended the festive service in the temple Life-Giving Trinity on the Sparrow Hills.