ROC outraged at removal of cross from temple on Leningrad liberation logo
A fragment of the logo with St Peter and Paul’s Cathedral without the cross. Photo: Kipshidze's TG channel
Vakhtang Kipshidze, deputy head of the ROC Department for Church-Society Relations, expressed his indignation on his Telegram channel over the emblem for the 80th anniversary of Leningrad liberation from the blockade, where St Peter and Paul’s Cathedral was depicted without the cross.
"For some reason, St Peter and Paul’s Cathedral seemed more suitable without crosses to the designers of the official logo. I don't understand what can explain the desire to remove crosses from cathedrals and how such artworks get approvals," Kipshidze said.
He assumed that crosses in the Russian Federation "embarrass" someone.
"For me personally, temples deprived of the main symbol of Christianity are associated with the time of struggle against God. It is over, isn’t it? Or have the designers entered into some mystical connection with the godless of the past?" wondered the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate.
As reported, there was a scandal around a new Russian 100-ruble banknote, where designers depicted the Vvedensky Church of the Kazan Kremlin without crosses.
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