Abstract
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of mobile churches. It examines the history of the mobile missionary church tent, which was established to promote Christianity among the Mansi people – indigenous reindeer herders in the Northern Urals. During World War I this mobile little missionary church was conveyed to the infantry regiment formed in the Urals and sent to the front line in France. From the missionaries’ reports and the documents of the Russian Orthodox Church Missionary Society published in Yekaterinburg Diocese’s newsletter, it was found that the original project of the mobile missionary church tent was suggested by Arkadii Garyaev. He was a missionary priest in the northernmost parish of Yekaterinburg Diocese. Arkadii Garyaev tragically died during the Civil War and was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. The missionary church tent fully equipped with ecclesiastical throne and iconostasis weighed only 70 kg and when folded could be transported on a sledge pulled by reindeers, allowing missionaries to reach the most remote settlements of the nomadic Mansi. These qualities of the little church tent were appreciated both by the regiment’s priest, soldiers and numerous guests in frontline France during World War I.
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