Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia today (December 6, 2010) cited statistics that 23,000 Orthodox Churches have been restored in Russia since 1990, according to the Interfax-Religion website.
"No other country has ever seen anything like that," he said.
"The world should be aware of Orthodox Russia's potential -- we are capable of performing a great feat of recreating the destroyed and desecrated things out of oblivion," Patriarch Kirill said.
In 1991, the former Soviet Union had 7,000 active churches, whereas the current number of churches has reached 30,000, he added.
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