May it be rewarded for sins!

Unknown attackers on the night of September 19-20 made a theft from the Temple of the Mother of God in the spaceship (Primorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region). The old icon of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the image of the Mother of God “Smolenskaya” in silver rizes, which were in the Sretensky chapel on the lower floor of the church, were stolen.

According to the press service of the Arkhangelsk diocese, this is the third theft from the Sretensky temple over the past 15 years. The investigation authorities opened a criminal case under Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Theft".

The Temple of the Lord of the Lord is located in the village of Rikasikhovo on the territory of the Kosostrovsky rural settlement, four kilometers from the city of Arkhangelsk. The Church of the Set of the Lord in the spaceship is one of the two hundred in the country, never closed: in Soviet times, parishioners defended their temple from ruin.