[1] The site is considered a platform for presenting the moderate conservative views of the Russian Orthodox community.
The main goal of this project was to collect a database of the local Orthodox Churches on one information resource.
[8] This event owed much to the preliminary work on the creation of the "Community of Orthodox Web Developers",[9] of which both projects were among the initiators.
[10] Pravoslavie.Ru took part in the first contest of Orthodox sites on Runet "Mrezha-2006,"[11] the jury of which was headed by the chief editor of the portal, Archimandrite Tikhon.
In fact, this website was an unofficial information resource of the Moscow Patriarchate Commission for Dialogue with the Russian Church Abroad and the Russian Church Abroad Commission for Negotiations with the Moscow Patriarchate, which drafted Act on Canonical Communion and the reunion procedure.
[16] On 29 May 2008, to commemorate the 555th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople, the editors of the Internet projects of the Sretensky Monastery launched a thematic website, "Byzantine Lesson".
The immediate reason for developing the site was the widespread media discussion of Father Tikhon's film "The death of an empire.
"[25] In December 2003, journalist Ksenia Luchenko assessed the site as follows: "At first it caused a cautious reaction from users because of its hurrah-patriotic and alarmist publications in the style of Russian House [ru].
According to the 2011 survey "Who, How, and Why to Study the Orthodox World" conducted by the "Sreda [ru]" research service among 50 scholars of religion, Pravoslavie.ru was ranked third among the top five most visited websites by respondents.