In Samara, believers were offered to buy a church building put up for auction for a quarter of a million dollars

"Novaya Gazeta" reports that in Samara the building of the Polish church, the first Catholic church in the city, was put up for auction (they were scheduled for May 15). “In 1995 (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation), it became a federal monument called the “temple complex,” the newspaper writes. “Since that time, the regional department of culture has not bothered to describe this object, to clarify how many buildings are included in it, what area they are The new feudal lords took advantage of this.

When an advertisement for the sale of a building with land appeared, merchants came to the temple. A certain commercial firm, warning that it was acting on behalf of the City Property Committee, offered the community to buy the building with the land ... for a quarter of a million dollars. The parishioners asked themselves: how many times will they have to redeem their property? Every time there is a change of power in the country? Then phone calls began: they promised to let the red rooster go, they strongly recommended not to make the case public in the media.

The community still believes in the prudence of the "president of the city" - this is how the mayor is called in Poland. "Praesidium" is translated from Latin as "protection, help, support". And what kind of support can be expected from a man during whose "presidency" the city lost several of the most beautiful old mansions.

Sources

• Marchenko D. Went to the church: Samara mayor put up a cultural monument for auction // New Newspaper. 2006. May 15.