37 Wooden Churches of Northern Russia Preserved in 2024

Russia, March 18, 2025

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Volunteers from the project Common Cause: Revival of Wooden Churches of the North and specialists from the Kizhi Museum-Preserve managed to save 37 wooden churches of the Russian North in 2024.

These results were summarized at a meeting with the Kizhi Museum director Elena Bogdanova and the founder of Common Cause Archpriest Alexei Yakovlev, reports Foma.

Common Cause volunteers work in the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kostroma, and Leningrad Regions, the republics of Komi and Karelia, and in Tatarstan for the first time this year.

Common Cause was founded in 2006 as a project dedicated to restoring and rebuilding wooden churches of the Russian north that were neglected, repurposed, and destroyed during the long years of soviet rule. Work has been carried out on more than 190 churches in 620 trips over the years.

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