The articles collected in the book about church, faith, religion and their intersection with politics do not fit into any single series - before us is a genre and stylistic mosaic: articles that raise questions of theory, ethnographic reports, interviews, essays, genre sketches, edifying tales, in which the narrator, as it were, goes aside and brings his heroes to the reader’s judgment, placing them in a certain conventional, non-chronological time - between the style of the 19th century and the factology of the late 20th. Themes are no less varied: the religious situation in various regions of the country, portraits of remarkable people the author met, the relationship between the state and the church, the desacralization of politics and the politicization of religion, Christianity and bioethics, Orthodox rock and roll, comments on statistical data, the essence and objectives of religious journalism... The book will be of interest to everyone, who likes to understand the nuances of the religious and political life of our contemporaries and is useful both for students who have sat down to do their course work and for specialists burdened with scientific degrees. Because “Cathedral Yard” is a treasure trove of subtle observations on the religious life of Russian people and intelligent comments on these observations.