Russia's Christ the Saviour Cathedral hosted the grand funeral, as Russians stood on the streets to pay their last respects to Alexiy II.
The gold-robed clergy chanted and mourners prayed at the funeral of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexiy II, who revived the nation's Christian faith after decades of communist atheism.
Streets in central Moscow came to a halt for the farewell to Alexiy who was enthroned in 1990, a year before the demise of the Soviet Union.
He died of heart failure on Friday (December 5) aged 79.
