This article is devoted to the analysis of everyday religious practices of Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War. The theoretical and methodological basis of the analysis is the concept of “lived religion”, developed by Meredith B. McGuire, Robert Orsi, Ivan Strensky. Our study of everyday religious experience during the Great Patriotic War within the framework of the concept of “lived religion” provides for the focus of research on the daily religious practices of Soviet believers of various religious denominations, implemented in both private and public spheres.; including both routine and unique religious acts; both cultic and social in nature; having a multifunctional meaning. The article presents the results of the author’s sociological research conducted in the period from 2018 to 2023 and is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of conversion into Orthodoxy in the age cohort of 70+, as well as the results of a secondary analysis of research data describing the socio-religious component of the events of the Great Patriotic War. The functional analysis of cult religious practices (prayer, liturgical, attributive-identifi cation, ritual) and social religious practices (charita