ROC will not receive Isaac Cathedral will remain the property of the city – Moskovsky Komsomolets

His turn in the temple, but to subsidize it will be from the budget of Petersburg

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representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Vice-Governor of Northern capital Michael Mokretsov told what will happen to the Cathedral after a change of owner. As it turned out, the local diocese to the agreement is only indirectly related, and legally, the application has not yet been issued.

Mokretsov noted that the Cathedral has been, and will remain the property of the city, but the authorities will give it for free use of the Russian Orthodox Church. The official confirmed that before the revenues of the Museum covered all costs for its maintenance and restoration (which is slightly less than a billion rubles a year), and now the city will have to subsidize. “The last restoration of the Smolny Cathedral (already given to the Church. — Ed.) fully financed from the budget,” said Mokretsov, wanting apparently to emphasize that the finances of the city is no problem. But six months ago Isaac left the Museum it is for economic reasons. To the question, what has changed, biting midges replied evasively: “the Situation, circumstances”, referring to the transfer of the Smolny and Sampsonievsky cathedrals.

Question, why destroy it economically successful system of the Museum, and have not received a clear answer. “There was a Museum, and its Church, now a temple and a Museum” — succinctly stated Moscow guests. Vladimir Legoyda, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church and society and the media, assured that the entrance fee to the Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church canceled. And it is 90% of the income. Will pay only the tour (take your favorite townspeople and tourists, the colonnade of Saint Isaac continues to be). Legoyda also surprised at the review of the Ministry of culture, which supposedly opposed the transfer of the Cathedral Church. “With the Ministry of culture we have successfully been in contact, they know,” he said. By the way, is the inventory of the Museum valuables of the temple is the main bureaucratic problem. Some of them Museum will be forced out of the Church removed, as, for example, the world’s largest Foucault pendu lum. Nikolai Burov has already offered to hang it in the new construction of the tower of “Gazprom”. All in all the Museum valuables in Isaakii — thousands.

the Main task, according to the Bishop of Egorievsk Tikhon — in the Central part of the Cathedral was the service of the Liturgy to the temple became a Church in the full sense of the word. At the same time during service of tourists in the Cathedral will work. When they start, if the services are every day? Such attention to Church rituals contrary to the numbers: according to the Museum, in 2016 to 4 million tourists visiting the complex, we had a total of 40 thousand who came in the temple. This is 0.1%. The Director of the Museum Nikolai Burov in favor of the Church facilitated in the temple services, 600 in 2016.

On the question of whether in General as an institution of the GMF St Isaac’s Cathedral (without actually Isaac in the composition) and what will happen to the Savior on the spilled Blood, which the diocese back in the spring were ready to qualify, the Vice-Governor answered again, evasively: “the Museum will remain. About the possible transfer of the Savior on spilled Blood no applications and no thoughts”.

“MK” has decided to learn from representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and the public of St. Petersburg what they think about the transfer of the Museum of the ROC.

Vsevolod CHAPLIN, Archpriest, member of the RF Public chamber, journalist:

— Personally, I think that the transfer of the Saint Isaac’s Cathedral Russian Orthodox Church — the right decision, it is strange that this is not done before. At the moment there is an existing parish is deprived of the opportunity to carry out their work in full. After all, for the full activities of the Church community worship is not enough. Should be a Sunday school, social service, and educational activities and youth work. After the transfer of the Church this will be the room.

Boris VISHNEVSKY, a political scientist, the Deputy of Legislative Assembly of St.-Petersburg:

In my opinion, the diocese stated that she was going to violate Federal law, according to which the Church takes care of all the maintenance and restoration of buildings transferred by the state. Moreover, it is unclear whether the request from the ROC for the transfer of St. Isaac’s Cathedral, which is required by law. The conversations that talked about this Patriarch with the Governor, have no legal force. We the supporters have already prepared a lawsuit that will file for official transfer of the Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church. At the moment, the Church is not engaged in the protection of the rights of believers — if they did, you would have restored dilapidated temples, and were not asked to pass in their care the prosperous and self-sufficient objects. The goal is to profit from the activities of the Cathedral, and all costs for him to switch on the state.