Mikhail Anshakov: “The temple is streaming myrrh with money”

"ХХС is a single large building with a total area of ​​55,692 square meters. It consists of a stylobate part (basement), where the majority of tenants are located, and a superstructure above the base, where the premises of the Upper Church are located, in which separate areas are also allocated for commercial activities .

The old building of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, blown up in the 30s of the last century, did not have any car washes, laundries, souvenir shops or numerous commercial offices. It was not built for that, and some hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church of that time probably believed in God, and they honored the law of God and the canons (canon 76 of the Sixth Ecumenical Council of Trullo), which directly prohibited any trade in the temple outside the church fence."