R.P.Ts.
EXPLAINS
SITUATION INVOLVING MOSAIC WITH PUTIN IN CHURCH OF ARMED FORCES
The
rector of the
chief church of the Russian Armed Forces, Bishop of Klin Stefan,
explained for
RIA Novosti the situation involving the mosaic in which Vladimir
Putin and
other Russian politicians are depicted.
He said,
the panel
was created in the workshop and it never was located in the
church, and it was
decided to reject from the exhibition the part with the
politicians.
The
decision about
the replacement was made by the artistic council, which relied
on the position
of Putin himself, who expressed his opposition.
"By and
large
this is the correct approach and therefore it is necessary to
agree with the
opinion of the first person of the state," Bishop Stefan said.
Now the
mosaic panel
is being reworked, the news agency's source said. "A different
theme is
being developed. After this it will be mounted immediately in
the church.
"Some
theme is
being developed thereāa procession of the cross in Pskov, or
something like
that. But I cannot tell you exactly. The theme of the new mosaic
is being
worked up now by Vasily Igorevich Nesterenko," Bishop Stefan
concluded.
The
church of the
Resurrection of Christ, the chief church of the Russian Armed
Forces, was built
on voluntary donations in the Patriot park in the Moscow suburbs
for the 75th
anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.
On the
territory of
the church complex it is planned to create a gallery "The Road
of
Memory." Its length is 1418 paces, according to the number of
days of the
Great Patriotic [War]. Information about the more than 33
million participants
of the Great Patriotic War will be displayed there and also
their surviving
photographs. (tr. by PDS, posted 2 May 2020)
Controversy in Russia over church of
the military,
April 24, 2020
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