Christmas liturgy of Saint Basil the Great in the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God

The holiday began with the Great Vespers and the Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great in the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God of the Kazan Mother of God Monastery. On Christmas Eve, it was celebrated by Metropolitan Kirill of Kazan and Tatarstan. At the end of the service, a candle was brought out to the middle of the church as a symbol of the Christmas star. In the evening, on the eve of the feast of the Nativity of Christ, the head of the Tatarstan Metropolitanate celebrated the all-night vigil in the Kazan Cathedral, and on the night of 6-7 January, the Divine Liturgy, which was attended by hundreds of believers not only from the capital of Tatarstan and its regions but also from other cities of Russia.