Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ Kirill supported Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s decision to move the construction site of the mosque to Kosino-Ukhtomsky district.
“I welcome the decision to choose another place of construction, which undoubtedly meets the expectations of believers, Orthodox and, I am sure, Muslims,” said Patriarch Kirill, citing the Orthodox Church’s website. Russian.
The primate of the Russian Orthodox Church also noted that before that, the construction proposal was considered on a preliminary basis, and no final decision was made by the Moscow government.
Earlier it was reported that Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin decided that the mosque has an area of 2.5 thousand square meters. m will be built not near Lake Svyatoye in the Kosino-Ukhtomsky district, but within walking distance of the Kosino metro station
