Christ is Risen!

Dear Brothers and Sisters! Dear Friends!

Please help us raise our crosses once again!

This year marks the 77th anniversary of the founding of the parish of Our Lady of Kazan in San Francisco, California. Our beautiful gem of a church memorializes the Royal Holy Martyrs of Russia, and is one of the oldest Russian Orthodox churches on the West Coast of the United States. Though we are not currently a large parish, we are a vibrant and growing religious community of Orthodox Christians honored and blessed to pray with devotion within a beautifully constructed Orthodox Church structure.

With the blessing of His Eminence KYRILL Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, all are welcome to join members of the Western American Diocese for the traditional annual pilgrimage to Fort Ross on Memorial Day, May 25th, 2026.

The Holy Trinity/Saint Nicholas Chapel at Fort Ross is the first Russian Orthodox Church in the contiguous United States. Fort Ross is "holy land" – where two saints have labored: St Innocent of Alaska/Moscow and the Holy Martyr Peter the Aleut. Two other saints, St Tikhon and St John of Shanghai, have prayed here and sanctified the lands, the chapel, and the cemetery.

His Grace JAMES Bishop of Sonora will be presiding over the Divine Services. After the liturgy, a procession to the cemetery with a "Litya for the Departed."

Schedule of the Day:

9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
11:00 AM Procession to the cemetery and Litya for the Departed.
12:00 PM Depart Fort Ross to Lady of Kazan Church for lunch.