A monument to St. John of Kronstadt to be erected in front of his apartment museum in St. Petersburg

A monument to the Righteous John of Kronstadt will be erected in front of the house where the saint used to live.

‘This plan was conceived five years ago when the memorial compound began to be built to stretch from the public garden of St. Andrew’s in which Father John of Kronstadt used to serve to his house’, the project’s architect Georgiy Boiko said to Interfax.

The memorial compound will include the pedestrian Andreyevskaya Street, which Father John used to take to the church, and a chapel. A memorial token is to be erected at the spot where now ruined St. Andrew’s used to stand.

‘The restoration of St. Andrew’s Cathedral has not yet been blessed by the metropolitan, and we now plan to erect only a folding memorial token, which can be moved to another place in case the church is restored’, he said.

The bronze monument to the Righteous John of Kronstadt was designed by sculptor Andrey Sokolov and architect Boiko. It belongs to the community of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Vladimir and the community is willing to give it to Kronstadt.

From Interfax-Religion