Muscovites against the redevelopment of Pokrovka and Maroseyki

The redevelopment of the streets of Maroseyka and Pokrovka in the center of Moscow will lead to the destruction of the historical appearance of these streets, the city defenders and abbot of the Orthodox churches located in this area are sure.

In January, the Department of Capital Construction of Moscow announced the redevelopment of the streets of Maroseyka and Pokrovka, writes the online publication “Orthodoxy and the world” .

According to the city defenders, the project will destroy the historical appearance of these streets, and wrote an open letter to the mayor Sergei Sobyanin demanding to review the project. Under the text of the letter, together with cultural figures, architects and residents, priests and parishioners of two local temples also signed. They believe that the redevelopment of the street will complicate the access to the temples and create problems for the restoration work that the temple premises needs.

“I am scared and bitter for the Arbat, which I loved very much, until they made an idle,“ OFO ”street from him. I’m afraid that such a future is now waiting for Maroseyka, ”says Father John Caleda, rector of the temple of the Life -Giving Trinity at the Gryazchi at the Pokrovsky Gate. A letter to Sobyanin was also signed by the head of the Church of Cosmas and Domian on Pokrovka.

Vladimir Khutarev-Garnishevsky, chairman of the Council of the Moscow branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments (VOOPIIK), explained that the city authorities did not conduct public hearings before the work, and the redevelopment project was never fully presented.

Those parts of the project, which were still shown by the residents of Maraeiseika and Pokrovka, indicate that it is planned to create a pedestrian zone similar to the one that has already been made on Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street. Close -defenders and residents of the Basmanny district believe that redevelopment violates the historical appearance of Pokrovka and Maroseyki and turns it into a nondescript remake.