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Ceremony unveiling the icon above the gate of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower

Dmitry Medvedev took part in the ceremony unveiling the icon on the Moscow Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.

August 28, 2010
16:50
The Kremlin, Moscow
Before the ceremony unveiling the icon above the gate of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower. With Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
Before the ceremony unveiling the icon above the gate of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower. With Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
Ceremony consecrating the icon above the gate of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.
Ceremony consecrating the icon above the gate of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.
Ceremony consecrating the icon above the gate of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.
Ceremony consecrating the icon above the gate of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.

The unveiling of the icon above the Spasskaya Tower's gate is timed to coincide with the celebration of the Assumption of the Virgin. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia conducted a prayer service for the consecration of the icon.

The Fund of St Andrew the Apostle took the initiative to restore the Kremlin gate icons. This initiative benefited from the support of the President and the blessing of the Patriarch.

After studies were conducted in the niches of the Spasskaya and Nikolskaya towers, the icons were found hidden under a layer of plaster in April 2010.

The icon on the Spasskaya Tower depicts Jesus Christ and two saints, St Sergius of Radonezh and St Varlaam of Khutyn, below him. The exact date the fresco was painted is not known, but it was not before the middle or second half of the 17th century. The icon of the Saviour gave the tower its name [the Saviour's Tower], which before that time was known as Frolovskaya Tower.

The last mention of the icon is from the 1930s, when a decision to cover the icon with plaster was taken. An icon of St Nicholas (on Nikolskaya Tower) was also immured at the same time.

The icon of St Nicholas dates from the late 15th or early 16th century. The image over the gate was damaged during fighting in October 1917. Restoration work on Nikolskaya Tower will last a few months longer.

 

See also

Speech at ceremony unveiling the icon above the gate of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower
August 28, 2010
Beginning of meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
August 28, 2010

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Publication date: August 28, 2010, 16:50

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/8759

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