Church memorial to the Motherland’s defenders to be built in Zelenograd

A church compound dedicated to the Holy Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles will be built in Zelenograd, the RIA Novosti has reported.

According to the Zelenograd News Portal, the new church will be built by the grateful people of Zelenograd in memory of their compatriots who were killed in action during the Great Patriotic War, the Afghanistan war and the anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya.

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia had sent a letter to Moscow Mayor Luzhkov in 1993 asking to consider the possibility for building such a church.

It will be a large church accommodating 700 people with three side chapels, a baptistery and a belfry. It will be built on the funds collected by parishioners and benefactors.

DECR Communication Service