An artistic-production plant “Sofrino” is one of the largest production sites of the Russian Orthodox Church. Here they make everything: candles, icons, books, innumerable quantity of church utensils. The entreprise is a secure facility so it’s not easy to witness their work.
“An artistic-production enterprise”Sofrino”of the Russian Orthodox Church”
Each employee of “Sofrino” may come to the temple on the plant territory for service.
Museum of “Sofrino”
Icons paiting shop
Candle shop
Does it look like spaghetti?
Ready products
Candle shop
Distribution department. Icons warehouse
Ready products exhibition
More expensive things
Exhibition hall
Church chandelier for 20 000 USD, anyone?
Gilded cup for donations (3250 USD)
Hall with jewelry products
Vestments from brocade: 450-540 USD.
They also grow food here
Vegetable storage
A house for rest
VIP stay here
They also make honey
There is fish in the pond
Location: Pushkino, the Moscow region
via pushkino-live
i like the vestments..did they made that kind of material for non priests to wear?
I’d buy that t-shirt
I would like to take a tour, very spiritual place.
Capitalism and religion are both utilized by the State to keep a population docile, compliant, distracted, and ignorant.
Stop trolling, man. It’s not doing you any good.
And yet severely restricting both under Communism doesn’t seem to have worked out for the people too well either. Go figure.
Yeah, I’m figuring, Hirsh… I’ll blame it on Stalinism, I guess…
They got them gold.
Certainly some of the most beautiful pictures that have been posted on this site. The Russian Orthodox Church is part of the cultural and artistic tradition of Russia. I, myself, am not a believer, but religious belief is a great comfort to many and it has sustained Russia through some very difficult times.
Certainly? In your opinion. Personally i find such ostentatious displays of wealth by religious charlatans to be obscene, disgusting, and at odds with the stated beliefs and values of said religions. Whatever faith they are.
WTH do they need all that decorative gold and jewels for? I mean REALLY? Talk about abuse of power and misappropriation of funds… the Curch has it!
Opulence, these guys has it.
Balls, these guys has it.
So beautiful!
What’s with Russia and garish red and gold decor?
I’d be fine with all of this if I didn’t know that everything was paid for by little old poor babushkas who have been forgotten by society and have nothing but God left. Instead of doing what the real, old Russian Orthodox Church did and what it is supposed to do, what set it aside from Catholicism and the rest, they take the money from these poor people and spend it on expensive Swiss watches that the patriarch wears publicly and when someone calls him out on it the Church hires someone to photoshop the photo of him wearing it. Too bad the guy they hired did a bad job and forgot to photoshop the reflection of the watch on the table. The Church keeps denying it and saying people against them are the ones photoshopping the photos. Too bad that they picture they released as official after they photoshopped it still had the reflection and any denying would be silly and hypocritical.
I always wondered why “God” needs so much gold for. People have told me the streets in Heaven are paved with gold and lined with jewels…. I just look at them and ask, why. Why does God need so much gold and stuff for.
I never get a good answer.
(to entice the people, that’s the answer, but they never say that)
That is why I am not a fan of organized religion it is nothing more than a way to make money I mean if the damn Chandler is 20,000 a pop you know now why they ask for tidings.
They use gold a flashy stuff to appear to be in the favor of god is the way I see it.Just think they could spend that 20,000 feeding needy people or to build a wing of a hospital or even pool that kind of money together with several other Orthodox churches and have an entire charity hospital.I some how suspect that they do not do this and if they do it a very small cut of the donations.
In the US we have the “Mega” church pastors they make a lot of money as well.
“I can give you salvation just send me your MONEY!”
Makes me sick to see such riches (ugly riches) when the population has so little.
Disgusting amounts of undeserved opulence, paid for on the backs of little old ladies on pensions, the Russian Orthodoxy has it!
GOD help anyone foolish enough to continue placing donations in a gilded donation cup that cost over $3,000. Wake up man! You’re being bamboozled by crooks.