Moleben on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the death of Prince Vladimir, with the assistance of several thousand people began on the first day of the week in the Park Volodymyr hill in Kyiv, reports journalist Last news from the event.

Solemn event dedicated to the day of baptism of Kyivan Rus and the 1000th anniversary of the death of Prince Vladimir, will be held in Kiev on July 27-28. They will participate clergy and believers from different Ukrainian cities.

Prayer makes the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Onufry. Also came to the event certain people's elected representatives. After the prayer service planned procession from St. Vladimir's hill to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Also the believers will visit Maidan Nezalezhnosti (independence), where it will honor the memory of the dead in February 2014 in the confrontation of the police Department with the demonstrators.

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