Posted on 09/25/2018 6:54:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
Chechnya’s first Orthodox church complex, including in addition to the church a parish school, a refectory, and a rectory for the priest and his family was inaugurated on Saturday in the Cossack village of Shelkovskaya in the northeast of the Russian republic.
The new Church of the Great Martyr St. Barbara was built on the site where a church of the same name had stood until it was destroyed by the soviets in 1937. The village is also celebrating its 300th anniversary this year, according to the site of the Makhachkala Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The opening ceremony was attended by His Eminence Archbishop Varlaam of Makhachkala and Grozny and Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov, among other public officials.
Thanks to the zealous work and donations of the local faithful, the church was built in just six months.
(Excerpt) Read more at orthochristian.com ...
Excellent!
How long before the bombs and rockets? mohammed’s guys are very territorial.
American russophobe nuts will accuse Russia of violating chechen islamists’ freedom of religion.
Given the Kossaks are building it and have Moscow’s license to kill and guard its borders, the islamists will have to pack up
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