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Where We'll Be
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A day-by-day guide to the "Covering Religion"
study tour
Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2002; 11:01 p.m. EST
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Thursday, March 14
6:50 p.m. Depart New York, JFK, aboard Lufthansa Flight 411
Friday, March 15
8:50 a.m. Arrive Munich
4:35 p.m. Arrive Moscow
Bus to Renaissance Hotel, where we will stay for six nights
8:30 Dinner at the Renaissance
Saturday, March 16
Breakfast at the hotel (served 7 to 12 on weekends; 6:30 to 11 weekdays)
10:30 a.m.
Depart for Sabbath prayers at Maryina-Roshcha Synagogue
1 to 2
Light lunch at Synagogue with Chief Rabbi Lazar and Rabbi Berkowitz
2:30 to 4:30
Tour of the Cathedral Mosque and the Religious Board for European
Russia's Muslims. Meeting with Mufti Ravil Gainutdin or one of his aides. A meeting with Madrasa students.
5 p.m.
Vespers at Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (optional)
Evening Free
Sunday, March 17 (Orthodox Day)
7 a.m.
Depart hotel (we will take box breakfasts from the hotel) for the Old Believers' church at Rogozhskoye cemetery.
7:45-8:30
Tour of the Old Believer's church and have orientation regarding the modern-day life of
the Bielaia Krinitsia Communion in Russia (The Metropolia of Moscow
and All Russia of the Russian Orthodox Old Ritualist Church),
conducted by the metropolitan's press secretary.v
8:30-9:30
Observe the first part of the Divine Liturgy (from the balcony)
Depart by bus for St. Tatiana's
10 a.m. -12 noon
The Divine Liturgy at St. Tatiana Chapel of the Moscow State
University (The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church).
12:30 - 2:30
Tour of the Kremlin
2:45 - 3:45
Lunch at a pizzeria overlooking the Christ the Savior Cathedral
4 - 5 p.m.
Tour of the Christ the Savior Cathedral (including a visit to the
observation deck at the foot of the dome and the museum of the
Cathedral which tells the story of its construction, destruction and
reconstruction
5 - 6:30 p.m.
The Rite of Forgiveness (entrance into the Lent) at the Christ the
Savior Cathedral with Patriarch Alexy II celebrating.
Depart by metro for the Petrovich Club restaurant
7:30 p.m.
Petrovich Club. Dinner with Russian religion reporters and young
religious Moscovites of various faiths at one of Moscow's most lively
and popular restaurants
Monday March 18 (non-Orthodox day)
9:15 Leave hotel by bus
10 a.m. - 12 noon. Golovinsky Municipal Court. Jehovah's Witensses
trial. Attend trial and speak to lawyers and believers in the lobbies.
1 - 2 visit Catholic Cathedral
3 - 4 Meet "Mountain Jews" near the Choral Synagogue
4:30
Arrive at the Moscow Baptist Church of the Union of
Evangelical Christian Baptist, which holds its all-Russian convention
to speak to delegates as they are gathering for the meeting.
5 p.m. Opening of the convention.
Evening: Bolshoi Ballet (optional)
Tuesday March 19 (Reporting Day)
Optional visits to the newsrooms of the Moscow Times and the New York Times Bureau
Evening: Moscow circus (optional)
Wednesday March 20
9 a.m. depart by bus for the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery in
Sergiev Posad.
Stop on the way at Radonezh (the birthplace of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the founder of
the monastery). Visit village church to get a taste for a "less intellectual" type of
Orthodox worship.
12 noon - 4 (possibly 5) p.m.
A tour of the Russian Orthodox Church's
main Theological Seminary and Academy, the monastery's magnificent
churches, offered by the director of the Seminary's museum, a lenten
lunch (strictly vegetarian and most likely highly untasty), followed
by a meeting with a group of English-speaking seminarians.
5 p.m.
The Canon of St. Andrew of Crete - a special repentant service
of the first week of the Lent - begins. Those willing can attend the
first part of the service. Others can walk around the town.
6 p.m. Dinner at a decent restaurant outside the Monastery grounds,
followed by departure for Moscow.
9 p.m. return to hotel
Thursday, March 21
8 a.m.Check out of hotel
10:30 a.m. Depart Moscow aboard Aerosvit Flight 406
11:10 a.m. Arrive Kiev
Noon Lunch in Kiev
1 to 5 "Temples of Kiev" guided tour
6 p.m. check in at Hotel Rus, where we will spend three nights
Evening Free
Friday, March 22
Visit Uniates, Ukrainian Orthodox, Protestant groups and Kiev personalities
Evening: Possible visit to Kiev Opera House (optional)
Saturday, March 23 (Day Off)
Evening: Farewell dinner at Kiev restaurant
Sunday, March 24
10:30 a.m. Depart by bus for Kiev airport
2:40 p.m. Depart Kiev aboard Lufthansa Flight 3283
3:55 p.m. Arrive Frankfurt
4:50 p.m. Depart Frankfurt aboard Lufthansa Flight 404
7:20 p.m. Arrive New York, JFK
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MIKHAIL METZEL/AP PHOTO
A PUBLIC FAITH: Agaphangel, Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchy) Metropolitan of the cities of Odessa and Izmail, blesses a Ukrainian woman outside of Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral
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