Assumption on the hill, in the square at the Holy Dormition Cathedral, ready to install a monument to the former Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II. Now working Vitebsk construction trust № 9 prepare the site for the foundation of the monument.

Told foreman Vitaly Kryuchkov, installation of the monument should be completed by March 23. Height of the bronze figure of the patriarch with the pedestal is about 5 meters.

The monument - sculptor Vladimir Minsk Slobodchikov, architect and designer Igor Morozov Igor Voyush. About the cross of St Euphrosyne of Polotsk is a monument temporarily. Set it aside. It is planned that the inauguration of the monument will be held on April 7, the feast of the Annunciation.

It is noteworthy that the monument Alexy II will be located next to the cathedral thus, restoration of which he blessed during his visit to Vitebsk in September 1998.

This is the second monument of the church hierarchy in the regional center - in 2008 in the courtyard of the cathedral church of the Merciful Jesus set the 4.5-meter monument in honor of John Paul II, to mark the 30th anniversary of his election as pope.

Previously there was a monument to Patriarch's residence in the courtyard of Vitebsk and Orsha Archbishop Demetrios.

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