About 100 thousand people took part in the All-Moscow religious procession

About 100 thousand people took part in the All-Moscow religious procession.

A religious procession in this format took place for the first time in modern history in 2025.

MOSCOW, September 6 - RIA Novosti. About 100 thousand people took part in the All-Moscow religious procession on Sunday, Vitaly Suchkov, head of the department of national policy and interregional relations of the capital, told RIA Novosti.

“About 100 thousand (people - ed.) took part,” Suchkov said.

The religious procession began at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the route ran along the Prechistenskaya and Frunzenskaya embankments and Khamovnichesky Val Street - to the Novodevichy Convent. The total length of the route is about six kilometers, travel time is from one and a half to two hours.

For the first time in modern history, the All-Moscow religious procession took place in 2025. As Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' reported, about 400 thousand people took part in it.

As the Chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department, Deputy Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archbishop Savva (Tutunov) of Zelenograd told RIA Novosti, this prayer procession is a revival of the tradition of large Moscow-wide religious processions, which dated back more than four centuries before the October Revolution.