Frankivsk authorities drop plans to build kindergarten on ruined church site
The building of the Transfiguration Church was demolished in order to build a school on the site. Photo: galka.ua
Ivano-Frankivsk Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv has said that a school accommodating eight grades will be built on the site of the demolished UOC church at 8 Chornovola Street, Versii reports.
“At Chornovola, we have a plot of land that the community won through the courts from the Moscow Patriarchate. And now we want to have a primary school there,” the mayor said. “That is why we have announced an investment tender for the construction of an educational institution for the community. So that children will have the opportunity to study where a kindergarten once stood.”
The mayor also said that the city’s need for a new school is greater than its need for a kindergarten.
As the UOJ previously reported, on February 10, 2022, the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council decided to destroy by demolition the church that had been taken from the religious community of the Transfiguration of the Lord in defiance of a ruling by the UN Human Rights Committee. The authorities had planned to build a kindergarten on the site of the demolished church, but in the two years since, construction had never begun.
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