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Russian city of Yekaterinburg rejects plan to build church in park [View all]
Source: BBC
Russian city of Yekaterinburg rejects plan to build church in park
22 May 2019
Residents of Russia's fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, have rejected plans to build a church in a popular park, ending a week of unrest.
The governor of the surrounding region, Sverdlovsk, said the church would not be built as a result of a survey conducted by an opinion pollster.
The VTsIOM poll found 58% did not want St Catherine's Cathedral in the park.
"This conflict is over, it's been exhausted," the governor, Yevgeny Kuyvashev, wrote in an Instagram post.
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Opponents said the cathedral would have destroyed one of the few green spaces in the city in the Urals.
The Russian Orthodox Church says it needs new churches to replace the many buildings destroyed under Soviet anti-religion laws.
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22 May 2019
Residents of Russia's fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, have rejected plans to build a church in a popular park, ending a week of unrest.
The governor of the surrounding region, Sverdlovsk, said the church would not be built as a result of a survey conducted by an opinion pollster.
The VTsIOM poll found 58% did not want St Catherine's Cathedral in the park.
"This conflict is over, it's been exhausted," the governor, Yevgeny Kuyvashev, wrote in an Instagram post.
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Opponents said the cathedral would have destroyed one of the few green spaces in the city in the Urals.
The Russian Orthodox Church says it needs new churches to replace the many buildings destroyed under Soviet anti-religion laws.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48371921
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