Rogozhskoye Cemetery

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The cross is being raised on the belfry of the Rogozhskoe Cemetery on Sept. 20, 1909.

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Rogozhskoe cemetery (Russian: Рогожское кладбище) in Moscow, Russia, is the spiritual and administrative center of the largest Old Believers denomination, called the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church.

Founded in 1777, this place is much more than just a cemetery; it is an entire small town of the Old Believer community, with its own cathedral, churches and chapels.

The cemetery gave name to a denomination of Old Believers called Rogozhskoe Soglasie. This denomination was the first among the popovtsy who found a bishop for the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy.

The name of Old Believer merchant Rogozhin, who figures in Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot, was also derived from this cemetery.