The award may be conferred upon clergy, lay people and, in exceptional cases, organisations.
The badge is a nickel-silver Byzantine cross (with truncated beams to the centre and slightly concave external parties).
On the branches of the cross are gilded letters Church Slavonic letters at the top: - "faithful" to the left - "KNZ" on the right - "DANIIL" at the bottom - "ISKCON" ("Pious Prince Daniel of Moscow") along the diagonals of the cross, adjacent to oval with a picture, are four crowns, each of which is decorated with rhinestones and ends with four-armed cross.
The central image of St. Daniel's background and bay frame, with a ribbon bearing the symbol of degree II, gilded.
The central image of St. Daniel's laurel branches frame the blue enamel, with a ribbon bearing the sign of the degree III.