The appetite of the parish

The construction of two hundred new temples in Moscow will not solve the problem of lack of places for all believers of the capital. The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill announced this with the heads of diplomatic missions of Latin America, Interfax reports .

“Only now we begin to understand that 200 will not be enough. We are only opening the temple, and there is no place there,” the patriarch said. According to him, 40 temples have already been opened in the capital in the capital in the capital.

The construction program in Moscow of the Temples of "walking distance" started in 2009. In January 2010, the financial and economic department of the Russian Orthodox Church established the support fund for the construction of churches of the city of Moscow, which takes donations for construction.

In some cases, the construction of new temples caused the protests of local residents. The most famous story with the protection of the Park peat in the north of the capital. The decision on the construction was made illegally. In the fall of 2015, the Urban Planning and Earth Commission of Moscow recognized this and canceled the decision, demanding to dismantle the construction site in the park. However, this was not done.

The attacks of Orthodox militants on eco -defenders began in the summer of 2015. In the fall, the clashes stopped, but after the New Year the conflict aggravated again. On the night of February 13, 2016, militants of the Magpie Sorokov movement tried to begin the unauthorized construction of the church,but the police stopped the attempt .

On the night of March 3, 2016, the camp of activists leading round -the -clock duty in the park was demolished under the cover of the police . The security forces kicked out the eco -defenders from the tent and pushed it off, while unknown people who came to the Gazelle plunged the tent and things of activists to their car, and later taken away. As it turned out, this Gazelle belongs to the administration of the Losinoostrovsky district.

As a result, the city hall proposed a new place in the area of ​​the Losinoostrovskaya railway station for the construction of the temple.