OCU Lavra abbot hails construction of pantheon in Lavra

Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Photo: radiosvoboda.org

The OCU’s “abbot” of the Lavra, Avraamiy Lotysh, in an interview with TSN, voiced support for the authorities’ initiative to create a National Pantheon on the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Lotysh called the parliament’s decision a landmark event that would allow the whole world to learn about the people who secured the country’s independence and sovereignty. “Our national heroes will be buried there, those whom the whole world should know about, because thanks to them we have our country, we have sovereignty, we have independence,” the OCU representative said.

Avraamiy Lotysh expressed special gratitude to Volodymyr Zelensky for his speech on the square in front of the Dormition Cathedral on Constitution Day. He stressed that it was thanks to the president’s political will that the project to create the pantheon and install a bust of Hetman Mazepa in the monastery had gained its current scale and “solemnity.”

Earlier, the UOJ wrote that, according to an MP, the construction of the National Pantheon on the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra would destroy the Orthodox shrine.

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