Russia’s most famous icon handed over from museum to church despite protests

Patriarch Kirill, foreground, conducts an Orthodox service celebrating Trinity Sunday, in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia on Sunday, June 4, 2023 (Oleg Varov/Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP/PA)

Russian Orthodox believers celebrated Trinity Sunday with Russia’s most famous icon transferred from a museum to Moscow’s main cathedral despite the keepers’ protests.

The Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev, which was kept in Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery since the 1920s, was moved to Christ the Saviour Cathedral before the holiday on President Vladimir Putin’s personal order.