Svetlana Medvedeva visited the only temple of the Russian Orthodox Church in German -speaking Switzerland
The wife of the President of the Russian Federation Svetlana Medvedeva, accompanied by the head of the Russian state during a state visit to Switzerland, visited the Voskresensky parish in Zurich, ITAR-TASS reports. The parish was founded in 1936 and for a long time was located in a residential building. In 2001, the parish acquired the building of the former Protestant church. During the reconstruction, a dome traditional for the Russian temple, decorated with an Orthodox cross, was erected.