Svyatogorsk Lavra. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 4A large-scale fire started as a result of hostilities in the All Saints Skete of the Holy Assumption Svyatogorsk Lavra in the DPR, the Information and Educational Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) reports. «On June 4, 2022, in As a result of hostilities, a large-scale fire broke out on the territory of the All Saints Skete of the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra. The flames completely engulfed the main church of the monastery,» the message says. The UOC resource also reports that at the moment there is no information about the dead and injured. a wooden church of All Saints with seventeen domes was built in 2009 on the site of a church of the same name blown up in 1947 in the traditions of Russian wooden architecture of the 16th-17th centuries. the brethren of the monastery were killed, three more were wounded in the shelling.
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