Orthodox in Morocco met a baptism under the warm sun of Rabata

It was unusually crowded in the temple of the Resurrection of Christ in Rabat - the capital of Morocco, ITAR -TASS reports. The rector of the temple, Archpriest Sergius headed here the day before, to the Epiphany Eve, Vespers. Then, in the courtyard of this parish of the Russian Orthodox Church, under the crowns of a huge plane, olive and thuja made a great consecration of water.

Parishioners living and working in this Arab kingdom of Russians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Ukrainians, Greeks - Archpriest Sergius sprinkled with holy water. Then everyone filled plastic bottles and can of consecrated Moroccan water and joyfully congratulated each other on the holiday of God's . It was completely unexpectedly freezing the rain, and the sun came out, which brightly highlighted the White Temple in a close environment, also in the most white Moroccan cubo-shaped houses.

“This can be perceived as a feeling of the sent down the grace of God,” the priest told the ITAR -TASS to the ITAR -TASS. “The rain is a rare phenomenon here. And, of course, it is significant that he went at the time of the consecration of water.”

Archpriest noted that Russian emigrants, who had forced to leave their homeland in 1920, made a great contribution to the care of traditions. The whole Russian community in Morocco then united around the hastily built wooden churches, and later under the canopy of the beautiful Church of the Resurrection, consecrated in Rabat in 1932, the appearance of which combines the usual features of the Orthodox Church and the elements of Andalusian architecture.