An Orthodox church to be built in Ingushetia

INGUSHETIA, October 28, Caucasus Times – By the end of the this year, the construction of an Orthodox church in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village of Sunzhensky district in Ingushetia will be completed.

The construction of this new Orthodox church was intended by the government of the republic to ensure the Russian population return to Ingushetia, the district administration said in an interview with the Caucasus Times correspondent.

“This church building is going to be essentially different of the old church,” says Andrei, a builder contracted for the project. “Firstly, the new temple will be twice above the old one, the overall height to the top of cupola cross will be about 27 meters. According to design the church is expected to be much more specious than the old one.”

The construction of Orthodox Church turned out an event for the Russian orthodox believers of Ingushetia. “There have been only two small churches in the republic thus far, one in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village and a dilapidated church in Troitskaya village of Suzhensky district of Ingushetia. Actually, we are very exited by the news that the new church is going to be build,” says a local Russian woman Antonina Samoilova. “During the most significant Orthodox religious services lots of Christian believers even from the neighboring Chechnya used to come here and there was no room in the old church,” the local woman said.