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| Volume 6 Number 21 - Tuesday, May 25th, 2004 |
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PATRIARCH ALEXY CONSECRATES LIFE-GIVING TRINITY CHURCH by Yelena Dorofeyeva and Olga Kostromina TASS, 19 May 2004 - His Holiness Alexy II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, consecrated the memorial church of the Life-Giving Trinity - patriarchal town residence - at the Borisovo Ponds here on Wednesday. A ceremony to bless the Holy Table in the Altar was attended by His Eminence Metropolitan Lavr, the first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and by hierarchs accompanying him. At the close of the consecration ceremony, Patriarch Alexy officiated the first Divine Liturgy. The church complex, with azure domes and a blossoming orchard, is the second-largest one after the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and will be undoubtedly the pride of Moscow and an architectural dominant in the capital's south. The church has been designed in the Byzantine style and constitutes a single-domed cross-shaped building with four side-chapels. The church together with the cross is 70 metres high. Moscow's only porcelain iconostasis, made in the workmanship traditions of the 19th-century Kuznetsov Art Workshops has been installed in the church. The ground floor accommodates the baptistery for the christening of adults. A patriarchal town residence near the church will comprise a bell-tower with a12-bell carillon, a chapel in the name of the most Orthodox Prince St Alexander Nevsky, a Sunday school building, and a house for the parish clergy. A decision to build this church was taken in 1988 during the celebration of the millenary of the baptism of Rus(sia). However, owing to economic difficulties, the project has been implemented only now. The church has been fully built on the funds of the Baltic Building Company. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation Vassily Nesterenko, a correponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, has told Itar-Tass that the artistic team has set about covering the church with paintings. Patriarch Alexiy has endorsed a project for mural paintings. In commemoration of the event, to the millinery of which the church is dedicated, the paintings on the walls will represent the Feast of Saints that Shone Forth in the Land of Russia. "The area of wall paintings will be about 3,500 square metres," the artistic team director said.
(Copyright 2004 ITAR-TASS News Agency) |
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