Orekhovo, the Holy Source of the Prophet Elijah

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The Holy Source of the Prophet Elijah (Orekhovo) is among the Orthodox places marked for the location “Orekhovo”. Today, this revered spring has about 6 meters in diameter, at the bottom there are more than twenty keys. It is a small pond with a diameter of several meters, from the bottom of which beats many keys.

Revered source with a wooden font of full immersion. Before the trip, it is useful to clarify the state of the access road and the current access mode.

How to Get There

Landmark is Orekhovo. Travel from Moscow: by bus from the metro "Vykhino" bus No. 189 departs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, following to the village of Malino, you need to get off at the stop "Shcherbinino" on foot. The distance from the bus stop to the source is a little more than 5 kilometers or from the metro "Vykhino" by buses No. 402, 403 to Malino, then by bus No. 34. By electric train from the Kazan station in Moscow, to the platform "88 kilometers" in the suburban Voskresensk, from where a suburban train No. 6397 in the direction of "Kurovskaya-Mikhnevo" departs with an interval of two hours, to the station "Myakinino", then on foot, the village of Orekhovo is 1.6 km north-west of the station Myakinino on the district railway line. For navigation, use the coordinates 55.139805, 38.353329.