In November 2013, an official body that oversees construction on heritage sites approved the construction of a huge "church on blood" dedicated to the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The 61-metre-high building, fittingly situated next door to the infamous Lubyanka Prison, was completed in early 2017, in time for the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution when attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church had begun.
Architectural preservationists voiced their concern that the outsize building would irrevocably alter the surrounding cityscape.
In November 2013, an official body that oversees construction on heritage sites approved the construction of a huge "church on blood" dedicated to the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church. The 61-metre-high building, fittingly situated next door to the infamous Lubyanka Prison, was completed in early 2017, in time for the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution when attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church had begun. Architectural preservationists voiced their concern that the outsize building would irrevocably alter the surrounding cityscape.
Sretensky Monastery