Moscow celebrates despite coldest Christmas night ‘in 120 years’
Bitterly cold temperatures haven’t stopped worshipers from celebrating Epiphany and Orthodox Christmas. Christian believers across the globe joined in celebrations.
Those who attended midnight liturgy at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior had to bundle up for the bitter cold as temperatures in the capital dropped to about -30C on Christmas night. In Moscow Region, temperatures dropped below -32C.
Extreme cold weather was experienced across the country, with some regions such as Siberia and Yakutia recording temperatures of -40C.
Around 500 personnel from emergency services were deployed in the Russian capital to assist worshipers. Authorities provided around 200 mobile food tents with hot meals during the Christmas celebrations due to the cold.
This Christmas night was the coldest in the last 120 years, a meteorologist from Fobos weather center said, as cited by RIA Novosti.
“Even in the last 120 years this Christmas night was the coldest one, though the absolute record was more than 130 years ago, in 1881, it was -35C,” the center reportedly said.
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