Russia Plans ‘World’s Biggest’ Orthodox Church

REPORTS THE MOSCOW TIMES 21 January 2020

World’s Largest, 40,000! Capacity, Orthodox Cathedral Planned Where Russia’s Last Emperor was Murdered

40,000 Christians should fit inside this cathedral. They plan to build it in the area near where the family of Tsar Nicholas II was killed, and it may become one of the biggest pilgrimage destinations in all of Russia. It would measure 118,000 sq ft and have two floors with churches on each floor, totalling roughly 200,000 sq. ft. 

3D модель будущего христианского супер собора https://youtu.be/M6GlOQ_beUo via @YouTube

Proposed site, in context

It will be dedicated to Saint Sophia

An orthodox icon of the lastTsar, Nicholas II, and his family, inside the Temple on the Blood in Yekaterinburg

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