Omsk residents once again opposed the construction of a cathedral on Leninskaya Gorka

Omsk once again discussed the construction of a cathedral on Leninskaya Gorka.

On November 24, 2019, it became known that Omsk residents were once again once discussed the construction of a cathedral on Leninskaya Gorka. The discussion took place in mid-November and caused heated debate among representatives of the Church, Cossacks, political parties, public figures and architects.

In response to voices calling on communists to repent for the repression Soviet regime, representative of the Omsk branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, Nikita Shalmin recalled that the project of the temple   "does not fit into the city's design code." “ This place has an architectural problem, he said. - Now the dominant feature of this place is the theater. And then it is not clear in what combination they will interact? The situation can be assessed only when we take the section "Embankment - Budarina - Theatre square". Only then is it possible to evaluate the project. Otherwise we we will get a town-planning anecdote, of which there are so many in Omsk .”

Recall that in March 2019, VOOPIK published the results of an online voting, dedicated to the construction of the temple on Leninskaya Gorka in Omsk. Against construction temple were 57% of those who voted.

Sources

• “Dig in Lenin!”: How was the discussion about the construction of Ilyinsky Cathedral // Om1.ru. November 24, 2019