There is given the analysis of the basic tendencies in implementation of Russian citizens’ rights for religious freedom in the educational sphere. The theses of the classical educational paradigm are correlated with the Holy Trinity paradigm. There is researched the connection of the notions of God similitude as the essential characteristics of a personality and spiritual education, as the revelation or establishment of the “God image” in a person through God similitude. There are represented the ideas of the theoretical and methodological foundations of establishment of the educational space at an Orthodox educational institution.

There is represented the category of co-existence community that lies in the basis of the notion of the Orthodox university as a specific educational space, considered the procedural characteristics and stages of establishment of a co-existing community, described the value and sense, communicative and organizational, space and semantic components of the process of establishment of a co-existing community at every stage.

There is represented the category of co-existence that is the basis for existence, or ontological pedagogy, revealed three ways of human existence: consciousness as “clever doing”, peculiar for the monastery pedagogy, communication considered as the model of correlation between people, and activity implemented in church service. There is characterized the category of service that synthesize the theoretical and practical aspects of the Orthodox pedagogy in the holistic approach to establishment of a spiritual personality.