Veterans Vladivostok offer to do Transfiguration Cathedral Memorial Church

The initiative assignment cathedral status in Vladivostok Memorial Church to the Metropolitan Veniamin of Vladivostok and Primorye and the mayor of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev asked the Bureau of Vladivostok City Council veterans.

In connection with the celebration in 2015 the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the establishment of peace in the Pacific, the veterans take the initiative to give new status of the Transfiguration Cathedral Memorial Church for the purpose of perpetuating the city of military glory feat all those who died for their homeland in During the Great Patriotic War.

April 10 at a meeting of the Presidium of the City Council discussed the Veterans of measures to prepare for the celebration of two anniversaries. According to the participants, being built next to the cathedral and the square stele "City of Military Glory" to merge into a single memorial to the feat of the Soviet peoples.

Vladivostok veterans are ready to participate in the work of the joint committee, which will discuss efforts to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the days of the World in the Pacific.

Chairman of the Presidium of Jacob Kahn commented on the decision: "I think the noble cause of construction of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of veterans support The Second World War was over due, including the feat of Pacific. This is why we call on all veterans' organizations, all residents of the Far East, who are committed to the historical memory of Russia, with the request support our proposal. "

The head of the diocesan Department for Relations with the Armed Forces of Russia, Archpriest Victor Tenants saw outstanding veterans desire for an end to the division of the people in the "red" and "white", "left" and "right": "Today, our society is still not easy to find the lost state of tranquility. Because people can only combine traditional human moral values, in particular, the sacrificial service for the people. Fought for the values of the fascist invaders veterans, for their families, for the life of a united front vexed enemy from their land As a symbol of Moscow grateful memory to God for the gift of victory in the war of 1812 was the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and the new Transfiguration Cathedral in Vladivostok as a memorial church will be a sort of spiritual for the linking of different generations. "

If the initiative of the memorial status of the new cathedral in the center of Vladivostok will be supported, in the interior design elements will be included plaques with the names of war heroes, order bearer.