The court confirms the rights of UOC to the temple in Dnipro
"But this is not a defeat: this decision opens the way for an appeal directly against the settlement agreement," the plaintiff does not surrender.
According to the activist, the decision of the Court of Appeal allows to restore the deadline for filing an appeal against the settlement agreement.
The Dnepropetrovsk House of Organ and Chamber Music is in the building of St. Nicholas (Bryansk) Cathedral built with the funds of the Bryansk metallurgical plant in the early twentieth century. The cathedral has belonged to the Orthodox community for more than ten years. In the Soviet era, it was taken in favor of the state, given the status of architectural monument and in the 1980s turned into an organ hall with a unique organ.
In March 2011, the building of the organ hall became the property of the UOC community, which, under the terms of the settlement agreement, approved by the Economic Court of the Dnepropetrovsk region on August 26, 2010, undertakes to provide the unhindered functioning of the House of Organ and Chamber Music. On the assurances of the Metropolitan Irenaeus of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlograd, the organ will remain untouched in the upper part of the cathedral until the construction of a new organ house in the city, where it can be transferred.
Since March 14, 2013, regular worship services have been held in the basement of the temple.
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