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Palestinian Society


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PALESTINIAN SOCIETY (before 1917, the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian society), a charitable scientific organization. It was created in 1882 on the initiative of Grand Prince Sergei Alexandrovich (president for life) with the purpose of supporting Orthodoxy in the Holy Land (including Syria and Lebanon), acquaintance of Russians with the Palestine and pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Palestinian Society erected churches and hostels in the Holy Land, supported teacher seminaries, schools, ambulance stations and hospitals. The Society negotiated preferential passing duties for pilgrims due to which many thousands of Orthodox believers from Russia could visit the Holy Land annually. The Palestinian Society also carried out archaeological excavations, scientific expeditions, published hagiographies of Palestinian saints, descriptions and guides of the Holy Land. The Orthodox Palestinian Anthology was published from 1881, (known as the Palestinian Anthology since 1918), and Reports of Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society from 1891. Many outstanding scientists were members of the society, including V. V. Bartold, S. F. Oldenburg, I. Y. Krachkovsky, V. V. Latyshev, N. Y. Marr, and V. V. Struve. The Administration of the Palestinian Society, which had sections in many eparchies, was located in St. Petersburg at 36 Voznesensky Avenue. In 1885, the Chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky in Old Alexander's Market, which had raised money for the restoration of the Church of St. Nicholas of Mira in Turkey was transferred into the ownership of the Palestinian Society. In 1905, the chapel was sanctified as St. Nicholas’ Church. In 1913-15, the church dedicated to St. Nicholas of Mira was erected in its place in the Neo-Russian style. At the same time the Palestinian Society started building the Russian representative office with a church in the City of Bari in Italy, but the project was not completed on account of the Russian Revolution. In 1918, the Russian Palestinian Society was transferred to the Russian Academy of Sciences; its Russian properties were nationalized. The society now functions abroad under the original name along with the Jerusalem Spiritual Mission of the Moscow Patriarchate taking care of Russian Churches and Institutions in the Holy Land. In 1992, it was restored to its former status in Russia.

Reference: Грушевой А. Г. Императорское Палестинское общество: (по петерб. архивам) // Архивы русских византинистов в Санкт-Петербурге. СПб., 1995. С. 134-156; Россия в Святой Земле: Док. и материалы: В 2 т. М., 2000; Лисовой Н. Н. Православное Палестинское Общество: (Проект В. Н. Хитрово) // К Свету: Альм. М., 2002. Вып. 19. С. 128-132.

V. V. Antonov.

Persons
Bartold Vasily Vladimirovich
Krachkovsky Ignaty Yulianovich
Latyshev Vasily Vasilievich
Marr Nikolay Yakovlevich
Oldenburg Sergey Fedorovich
Sergey Alexandrovich, Grand Prince
Struve Vasily Vasilievich

Addresses
Voznesensky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 36

Bibliographies
Россия в Святой Земле: Док. и материалы: В 2 т. М., 2000
Лисовой Н. Н. Православное Палестинское Общество: (Проект В. Н. Хитрово) // К Свету: Альм. М., 2002
Грушевой А. Г. Императорское Палестинское общество: (по петерб. архивам) // Архивы русских византинистов в Санкт-Петербурге. СПб., 1995

The subject Index
Church of St. Nicholas of Myra
Russian Academy of Sciences



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