[wetphoenix]

According to the pastor, before Bolshevik revolution in Yekaterinburg there was very big Lutheran community, the church settled down on present Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, in the downtown, and was very similar to the Petersburg temple on the Nevsky which is loved still by tourists. William de Guennin, one of founders of the city on Iset, was German by origin, to construction of plants invited the Swedish and Dutch engineers who also professed Lutheranism.

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.

[Dr. Sivana]

So has their synod gone to pot like most of the U.S. ones have?

[Fiji Hill]

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.

[Biggirl]

What part of Russia is that church located in?

[Vermont Lt]

Every time I read Blyukher, I hear a horse whinney. Funny.