The Temple at the FSB in Moscow was crowned with crosses

The temple under construction in Moscow at the Federal Security Service on Wednesday was crowned with crosses. According to the website of the "Program for the Construction of Orthodox Churches" , the dean of the Mikhailovsky district, Archpriest Georgy Studenov, "consecrated the crosses of the majestic cathedral in honor of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God" on Michurinsky Prospekt, 70. After the service, the Crosses were solemnly installed on the domes.

Many residents of the surrounding houses gathered to take part in this solemn event.

The new cathedral is designed for 1000 people. Its area is 1280 square meters. meters, height - 57 meters. The draft interior is developed by academics of the Russian Academy of Arts A.A. Zhivaev and E.N. Maximov, who worked on the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Having consecrated the crosses, Father George quoted: “The Cross is the Keeper of the entire universe. Cross is church beauty,” is sung in festive stichera. We turn to the cross as a shrine, as a symbol of salvation, as a source that exudes a fertile force. And now the new magnificent building has become not only outwardly more like an Orthodox temple, not only attracting even more attention of the townspeople with its beauty, but its architecture, the form was filled essentially. Now this is an Orthodox shrine. "