ARMENIAN CHAPEL WILL GO UP AT POKLONNAYA HILL

RIA Oreanda
Sept 8 2009
Russia

Moscow. OREANDA-NEWS . On 8 September 2009 was announced, that the
city authorities of Moscow approved the project aimed at building an
Armenian chapel at Poklonnaya Hill.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov signed the decision to allocate a site for
the chapel development.

A source from City Hall reminded that the order to elaborate
construction documents on the object was approved in spring
2007. According to him, the chapel with the total area of 725 square
metres , including the 500-square-metre substructure, is to be erected
on the 0.11-hectare site. The construction period is not fixed yet.

When the chapel is commissioned, all its areas will be transferred
into the ownership of the Russian and Novo-Nakhichevanskaya Diocese
of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

The source said there already was an Orthodox Church, a mosque and
a synagogue within Poklonnaya Hill memorial complex in Moscow.