The fair ‘Blessed Caucasus’ has started today on Teatralnaya Square in Yessentuki with the participation of churches and monasteries, monastic farms, workshops of folk crafts, book publishers and manufacturers of jewelry. In addition, secular organizations that work with the Russian Orthodox Church from different regions of Russia, the CIS and foreign countries were represented.
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill gave his blessing to the exhibition.
The opening ceremony was attended by the Archbishop Theophylact of Pyatigorsk and Circassia, Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsky Kliment, who conducted the Divine Liturgy, 'Stavgorod' reports.
