Believers of the Moscow Patriarchate protested in the center of Kyiv
On the church holiday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, the Kiev Orthodox brotherhood picketed the city hall on Khreshchatyk. As you know, the City Council commission on urban planning recommended that Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko “instruct the structural divisions of the city executive committee to demolish the monastery buildings as soon as possible.”
According to the Maidan deputies, at one time permission to build an Orthodox church on the territory of the current Museum of the History of Ukraine was obtained illegally.
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However, before the existence of Ukraine itself, this territory belonged to the first stone temple in the history of Rus' - the so-called. Tithe Church. It was built using “tithes” allocated by the Baptist of Rus', Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, from his personal treasury to the Orthodox Church.
This is what the believers tried to convey to the current Ukrainian leaders of the Mother of Russian Cities. Just like the fact that the current temple (built in memory of the one blown up by the creators of Ukraine - the Bolsheviks) in no way threatens the remnants of the medieval foundation of the first “Tsiatynka”, since it stands aside.
Moscow Patriarchate believers protest in central Kyiv.