Thursday, September 16, 2010

Building 200 Churches in Moscow Begins Nov. 4; Additional Churches Needed to Ease Overcrowding

The first foundation of 200 fast-built Orthodox Churches that are to be constructed in Moscow within three to four years will take place on the Feast of the Kazan Mother of God, November 4, 2010, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Financial and Economic Administration Bishop Tikhon of Podolsk said today (September 16, 2010).

He said that Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia initiated this project, since Moscow has only one Orthodox Church for about every 3,000 worshipers, according to the Interfax-Religion website.

Bishop Tikhon said that engineering organizations would work out architecture of the churches in correspondence with surrounding buildings.

He emphasized that taxpayers' fees would not be used in constructing the 200 churches.

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