Webinar “Art that brings peace: Temple of the Life-Giving Trinity in Pyongyang, DPRK”
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2024-02-07
City: Moscow
Organizer
Universal Peace Federation of Russia
Location
Moscow
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It is a program of the Universal Peace Federation. Culture and art have repeatedly proven their peacekeeping role. The webinar discussed how the artists of the Moscow mural painting artel “Joy” completed the complex and labor-intensive work of painting the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity of the Russian Orthodox Church in North Korea in a short time. The temple was built on the personal instructions of Kim Jong Il, who headed the DPRK in those years. It is a first-hand a story about how Russian icon painters created the image of God on the distant Korean land, among other customs and faiths.
Guest of the program: Mr. Boris Alekseev, head of the “Joy” artel, holder of the Order of the Russian Orthodox Church, St. Sergius of Radonezh III degree, etc. Andrei Rublev, member of the Moscow Union of Artists