On the evening of Could 17, the unlawful “temple”-MAF was demolished. “Glavkom” was an eyewitness of this occasion
On the evening of Could 16-17, a small architectural type of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine was demolished in Kyiv. The historical past of this illegally erected construction within the middle of the European capital is nearly 20 years previous…
We should give credit score: even throughout the battle, the Ukrainian authorities discovered essentially the most civilized and non-conflict solution to lastly clear up this drawback. There have been no skirmishes. And there’s no purpose to accuse Ukraine of persecuting somebody on spiritual grounds, which the enemy was ready for.
Calm earlier than…
At round 10:00 p.m., the Nationwide Police blocked all passages and passages to the territory of the Nationwide Museum of the Historical past of Ukraine, the place the unlawful MAF was established again in 2005.
“Glavkom” recollects the historical past of the development of this constructing, which the Moscow Patriarchate persistently referred to as first a chapel, then a church, and eventually a “monastery”. We additionally remind you of the fierce battle of the folks of Kyiv for the liberation of the capital from the symbols of the church of the enemy state.
Why was the IAF demolished?
Within the authorized sphere, the courts put an finish to the historical past of the “Desyatynna tserkva” MAF. First, the Industrial Court docket of Kyiv in February 2023, after which the Northern Appellate Industrial Court docket of Kyiv on September 14, 2023 ordered the dismantling of the unlawful chapel.
“On September 14, 2023, the Northern Appellate Financial Court docket confirmed the duty to launch the location from the illegally constructed “MAF temple” on the territory of the Nationwide Museum of the Historical past of Ukraine, having thought-about the enchantment of the Non secular Neighborhood of the UOC MP Tenth Temple towards the choice of the Financial Court docket of the town of Kyiv,” it was acknowledged messages of the Ministry of Tradition and Info Coverage.
On April 8, 2024, the Nationwide Museum of the Historical past of Ukraine introduced a group of 772,000 hryvnias to pay for works to free the territory from unlawful building. Cash from the general public was collected in lower than a day. All that remained was to do what the folks and the regulation demanded – to free the territory on which the chapel was erected.
The view after dismantling the unlawful building
photograph: glavcom.ua
With out noise and mud. As early as 5:00 a.m., all work on the demolition of the unlawful IAF of the Moscow Patriarchate was accomplished
photograph: glavcom.ua
In any case, the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which operates in Ukraine underneath the model “UPC” (though this abbreviation is formally assigned to the native Orthodox Church of Ukraine), was not going to depart voluntarily.
The place did the MAF “Tithe Church” come from?
The historical past of the development of the “Desyatinna Tserkva” MAF started on the finish of the 90s of the final century. In 1998, the Kyiv Land Administration handed over a plot of land to the Museum of Historical past. Nothing occurred there for six years, and in 2004, the then head of the museum, Serhiy Tchaikovsky, granted the spiritual neighborhood of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (at the moment, Moscow churchmen did under no circumstances disown the addition of the MP subsequent to the abbreviation UOC, as they do now) a plot of land for the chapel. In 2005, an abnormal tent appeared, which became a wood chapel a yr later.
The historical past of the unlawful IAF close to the Nationwide Museum of the Historical past of Ukraine started with an abnormal tent
photograph from open sources
The Moscow Church itself referred to as the constructing a “monastery”. Extra to come back. After Viktor Yanukovych got here to energy, the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine, which the brand new president brazenly supported in each method, unfold its wings and… started to hunt property rights within the courts. And she or he succeeded, though solely on the constructing, however not on the land, as she needed. However the UOC MP didn’t cease there. In 2012, the wood chapel became a brick construction, which it remained till Could 17, 2024.
Regardless of all of the loyalty to the “chapel” on the a part of the ruling Social gathering of Areas, the insolence of the churchmen even offended the then head of the Kyiv Metropolis State Administration Oleksandr Popov, who was Yanukovych’s protégé. The city clerk, appointed by Bankova, declared the illegality of concreting the chapel close to the stays of the inspiration of the Tithe Church.
At the moment, the KMDA reported that the State Architectural and Constructing Inspection had issued an order on the illegality of concreting the wood chapel. Inside 10 days, the developer needed to take applicable measures to reply to the order. Merely put, demolish the constructed. However the UOC MP instantly declared that it had no intention of complying with the inspection’s request and dismantling something.
The scandalous vicar of the Gideon chapel is a citizen of… Russia
Within the story of the chapel/church/monastery there may be additionally a shiny hero named Gideon (Charon). This man is a local of Odesa, he was declared the deputy of the aforementioned IAF (from 2005 to 2019) and acquired the standing of bishop of the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine.
Bishop Gideon (Charon) helps the Russian troopers
photograph: Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine
Even earlier than the acquisition of Tomos by the UOC/OCU in 2018, Gideon actively spoke out towards autocephaly for the Ukrainian Church and publicly declared pro-Russian views. He argued that the enchantment of the Ukrainian parliament to Constantinople with a request to grant the Tomos to the Ukrainian Church is state interference in church affairs.
Gideon was repeatedly attacked by representatives of patriotic organizations, comparable to, for instance, “C14”. Ultimately, deputy Ihor Lutsenko revealed proof that Gedeon has Russian citizenship. On February 18, 2019, Gedeon was detained by Ukrainian border guards at Boryspil airport. A Russian passport was discovered within the possession of a minister of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. After that, the person was deported to the USA, since, because it turned out, along with the Russian one, he additionally had a passport of a citizen of the USA. The bishop was disadvantaged of his Ukrainian citizenship. Whereas already within the USA, Gideon had a speech within the US Congress, the place he introduced the discrimination of canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine, that’s, he acted because the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate continues to be doing within the USA, accusing Ukraine of persecuting Christians via the mouths of American propagandists, comparable to Tucker Carlson , instance.
So that there have been no doubts about who Gedeon labored for – the final contact to his portrait. At Christmas in 2023, throughout a co-service with Metropolitan Kirill of Kazan within the monastery of the Kazan Icon of the Mom of God within the capital of Tatarstan, Gideon already prayed for Russian troopers.
Who and the way fought towards the IAF
Public protests towards the development of the chapel/church/monastery started from the very starting of this epic – even when churchmen erected a tent close to the historical past museum in 2005. Since then, activists have repeatedly filed lawsuits in court docket relating to the illegality of establishing a tent first, after which constructing a chapel.
As “Glavkom” wrote earlier, in 2012 there was an try to set hearth to the premises, which was allegedly “perpetrated by pagans”. However then nobody was detained. Subsequently, the protests took on extra radical manifestations. For instance, on January 25, 2018, representatives of the organizations “C14”, “Traditions and Order” and “Sokil” dismantled the knowledge board of the IAF of the Moscow Patriarchate close to the place the place the Tithe Church was as soon as constructed. Activists in balaclavas lower down the “chapel” stand. In addition they burned paper messages saved underneath glass. Activists defined their actions as disagreement with the unlawful, of their opinion, set up of the chapel.
Along with public activists, the Nationwide Museum of Historical past additionally joined the combat towards Moscow churchmen. In 2017, he appealed to the District Court docket of Kyiv, demanding that the choice on the state registration of the rights of the UOC MP neighborhood to the chapel be acknowledged as unlawful. In one other three years, the museum staff demanded in court docket to demolish the chapel, as a result of of their opinion, the chapel close to the stays of the Tithing Church was constructed by itself. And solely final yr, the courts put a last cease to the case of the Moscow Patriarchate’s IAF.
The museum staff interviewed by “Glavkom” admit that the battle helped to eliminate the unlawful constructing. Earlier than that, the Ukrainian authorities merely didn’t have the political will, so this course of dragged on for ten years…
Mykhailo Hlukhovskyi, “Glavkom”
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