World Russian People’s Council/Ryazan asks for handing the Ryazan Kremlin over to the Russian Orthodox Church

The World Russian People’s Council/Ryazan has circulated an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin concerning the need to put the Ryazan Kremlin compound under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The letter states in particular that ‘the Museum directors maintain that through their efforts the Kremlin is flourishing, but few know that the six Orthodox churches in the Ryazan Kremlin have remained defiled. People’s access to five of the six churches is simply impossible.’

The authors of the letter assure the president that after the Kremlin is handed over to the Church, it will be open for all those who wish to familiarize themselves with the history and culture of Ryazan and express conviction that the Kremlin should be ‘an Orthodox center and a spiritual home for the Ryazan people’.

From Regnum news agency