Apr52015
Easter morning
Sunday, April 5th, 2015 at 7:30 pm by ErkinEaster. Before dawn the whole hill goes up with candles, from every lane, and when the first light comes over the Naryn the bells begin. We had five guests this year, a family from Talas with a grandmother in a wheelchair that we carried up the steps together, four men, in turns, in silence.
At the top the grandmother said: "I'm higher than I've been in my life." The archbishop's blessing came from the steps. Nobody spoke on the way down.
The lanes before dawn, Easter, candles on every step.