BTW, here is a picture of original Lutheran church, taken around 1870s.
Posted on 10/09/2014 4:56:20 AM PDT by wetphoenix
The Lutheran church in the territory of park on Blyukher Street will start being built probably this year. About it the E1.RU portal was told by representatives of a Lutheran community in Yekaterinburg. Documents on granting the territory according to the lease contract are already agreed with MUGISO and underwent all necessary procedures, including public hearings. Now parishioners expect the construction license which will allow to achieve, at last, long dream – to return to residents of Yekaterinburg the Lutheran temple. The area of building – about 400 square meters.
- We awaited five years for this decision, - the pastor of a community Valdemar Bentsel told. – This park is the former Lutheran cemetery. Its small site was qualified under the category "memorials and cemeteries". The cemetery existed till 1964. Then all gravestones were simply took out, and burials remained. When these new skyscrapers were built, there dug out bones, burials. If to to walk a little in this place, on park, it is possible even to see some gravestones which are filled simply up with the earth. Many famous people were buried on this place, who brought a contribution to a development of the city. We plan to establish any sign in memory of people who are buried here.
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Today most of members of a community are the people having the German roots, however, as the pastor noted, the church is open for all, among her adherents there are both Russians, and Tatars, and Chuvashs.
The main issue which disturbs the inhabitants of the area who learned about construction of the temple is a safety of park.
- That place where we want to build – only a small site of park, is some trees there, but they small, they can be replaced, - Valdemar Bentsel stated the position. – My opinion: if there not to construct now church, sooner or later, at most in ten years, here businessmen will build something another. This very attractive place for building. And it is important: the church is after all not an ugly office building. She is small, beautiful church, she will fit into a landscape, and practically all park will remain. We aren't going to enclose it with a high fence, it will decorate the city.
So has their synod gone to pot like most of the U.S. ones have?
I believe this represents a revival of traditional Protestantism in Russia.
It’s interesting that the church is being built on a street named for Vasily Blyukher, a Soviet general and Communist hero of the Civil War who later perished in Stalin’s purges.
What part of Russia is that church located in?
Middle Urals. It sits on a mountain chain separating Europe and Asia (to be precise it is on the very edge of an Asian part - a European-Asian border is some 10 to 15 miles West from the city limits).
It’s also the birthplace of Boris Yeltsin, and where the Czar and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks.
Every time I read Blyukher, I hear a horse whinney. Funny.
Yeltsin was born in a town of Butka, Talitsky District some 200 miles east of Yekaterinburg. But his political career has started in this city. He was a leader of Yekaterinburg based Urals CPSU branch.
As for Tsar he was murdered just a couple blocks away from the site of this planned church site.
BTW, here is a picture of original Lutheran church, taken around 1870s.
Thank-you!
Yes, it was Boris’ job to complete the coverup of the bolshevik murder of the last tsar and his family by destroying the house where the murders took place (a mere 60 years earlier).
Anastasia screamed in vain.
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