Russian church to rival St. Peter's (01/28/01)

Russian church to rival St. Peter's

RFE/RL Newsline

MOSCOW - Foreign Affairs Minister Igor Ivanov on January 13 laid the foundation stone for a new Russian Orthodox Church in Rome, ITAR-TASS reported. When completed, the news service said, "the dome of the Russian Orthodox church will rise high above the eternal city and rival the dome of St. Peter's Basilica."

In his message to the groundbreaking ceremony, Patriarch Aleksei II said that "the Russian Embassy and the Russian Church are perhaps the two places where our compatriots will always be able to come and get moral and spiritual support."

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