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
