The Russian Orthodox Church lays claim to the building of the Museum of Cosmonautics in Orenburg

The Orenburg diocese claims the building of the Museum of Cosmonautics, which once housed a theological seminary.

June 26 2017, it became known that the Orenburg diocese claims the building of the Museum cosmonautics, which housed the flight school, and even earlier - the spiritual seminary (Chelyuskintsev, 17). Beyond the museum the building houses a cadet corps and a modern seminary.

“ We discussed with Patriarch Kirill the situation in which we today got the government of the Orenburg region and got a long time ago , - the governor of the Orenburg region comments on the situation. - When the Orenburg Cadet Corps was created. I. I. Neplyueva, at that time the Orenburg Higher School ceased to exist aviation school for pilots. The building of the educational building is a former seminary before revolution. By law, the corps was then immediately transferred. What happened made? The Russian Orthodox Church signed the documents and the 3rd floor was given over to the theological seminary, and 1st and 2nd - under the cadet corps. And they approved the time for which, according to the law, it is necessary cadets to move out, and this is 400 people. But if you remove them, then you need them somewhere learn. There is no academic building. It is necessary either to build an educational building, but there is not enough places, or negotiate with the Russian Orthodox Church and build a seminary for them .”

Sources

• “This is beyond”: Venediktov told how the Russian Orthodox Church evicted the Gagarin Museum // Moscow's comsomolets. 2017. June 26.