Religious Tourism

Religious tourism is a pilgrimage, visiting holy places, religious centers, traveling around the world with a religious orientation. In turn, religious tourism is divided into - pilgrimage and cognitive.

Pilgrimage tourism is the desire and desire of people to worship holy places, heal the soul and body, pray for loved ones, for sins, manifestation of devotion to the faith. The geography of pilgrimage tours is extensive enough and depends on the faith of confession - Tibet, Israel, Italy, India, China, Nepal, Greece, St. Athos and many others. Usually the tour lasts from 5 to 10 days, during which the pilgrims visit the main religious sites, holidays, perform church events.

Cognitive tourism is a visit to holy places, museums, religious monuments, familiarity with their history, architecture. The most popular destination here is Israel. For a five-day tour, you can visit several cities, visit the dead sea and visit all the main holy places. In our country, religious tourism is just beginning to develop, here are some geographical directions of religious tours: the Transfiguration Solovetsky Monastery, located on the Great Solovki Island in the White Sea, the Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg, the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in Moscow Region, the monastery of the Holy Virgin Optina desert in the Kaluga region, Valaam and Kizhi in Karelia, Solovki in Arkhangelsk, Pskov, Nizhny Novgorod. The cities of the Golden Ring of Russia: Suzdal, Vladimir, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Sergiev - Po Garden and others. Also there are tours to the shrines of the Urals and Altai.

Duration of tours, mostly 3 - 7 days. Tours are organized not only by travel agencies, but also by public Orthodox organizations. There are about 90 established pilgrimage services and organizations in our country. Tours ordered in them will cost cheaper than in travel agencies. Representatives of the Orthodox Church in Russia talk about the great significance of the development of Religious Tourism in our country. Country.