The presented photographs were taken by Hieromonk Savvaty, Hierodeacon Augustine, Sergey Kompaniychenko, Viktor Gritsuk. The photo-exhibition Icons, Holy Places and Objects. The section has been provided to a great extent. About 600 photos have been published altogether. » see details

Some of the presented recordings are made at the recording studio, and some are live ones made in the church during the Divine Services. Undoubtedly, the studio recordings have much higher quality of their sounding, but live ones, in spite of all their quality drawbacks, can represent the Divine Service atmosphere. A pilgrim does not have a real possibility to listen to singing of the Lent or Easter Services when it is difficult to get to the island. Many of the pilgrims, visited the monastery, are thought to take a pleasure in listening to those singings. The presented studio recorded singing were made mainly from 1993 to 2002, and the live recordings were made from 2003 downwards. » see details

On September 19, Sunday morning, the Father Superior of the Valaam Monastery, archimandrite Pankraty (Zherdev) together with the Community ceremonially welcomed the Right Reverend Nicholas, the Sitka and Alaska Bishop (Orthodox Church in America) with the clerics of the Alaska diocese and pilgrims visiting the cloister » see details

A public prayer to the newly glorified Saint was held by the Abbot of the Valaam Monastery Archimandrite Pankraty in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour on June 7, on the Feast of the Third Finding of the Head of John the Baptist, the Forerunner. The brotherhood and pilgrims prayed to the Saint beseeching his help and protection. » see details

A public prayer to the newly glorified Saint was held by the Abbot of the Valaam Monastery Archimandrite Pankraty in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour on June 7, on the Feast of the Third Finding of the Head of John the Baptist, the Forerunner. The brotherhood and pilgrims prayed to the Saint beseeching his help and protection. » see details

On May 15, the Abbot of St. Andrew Skete Archimandrite Efrem came with the brotherhood and pilgrims from Mount Athos, Greece, to Valaam. » see details

The feast is a patronal festival of the Valaam Monastery. The church of Saint Nicholas Skete was dedicated to this holy day. Everybody, who has ever been on Valaam, keeps in his or her memory the beautiful church on the very edge of the Monastery Bay welcoming and seeing off pilgrims sailing on Ladoga Lake. » see details

Glimpses On Mount Athos By Valaam Monks presents the photographs taken by the monks of the Valaam Monastery while making their pilgrimages to Athos. » see details

At the meeting of the Patriarch’s Board of the Guardians supporting the reconstruction of the Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, which took place in the Refectory Chambers of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow on May 13, 2004, Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia » see details

A miraculous renewal of the icon The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ was granted at the Metochion of the Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour on the Holy Day of the Feast of Feasts – Easter. This icon, dark because of soot, had been placed in the narthex of the Methochion Church devoted to Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker when the monks had resumed services there. » see details

In the presentl light and joyful Easter days we present to your attention the new version of the Valaam monastery site. » see details

«Hardly somewhere in Holy Rus’ the Great Festival has been celebrated so humbly and peacefully, as it has at Valaam. We were alone in the monastery. The pilgrims were not allowed to come by Ladoga Lake, stormy as it has never been. The skete brotherhood celebrated on their own. Only the brotherhood of our monastery, having spent the Holy Lent and the Holy Week, labouring, fasting and praying thoroughly since the common fast on the first week, gathered and united in the lower church of the Cathedral on the Holy Night expecting the Easter Vigil. » see details