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Local glad London's Barnett this week approved the project of building of the Belarusian led direct church named St. Cyril of Turov. Construction should be the first Belarusian temple-monument to the victims led direct of the Chernobyl disaster abroad.
Almost immediately after the Second World War, when Britain were thousands of soldiers Belarusians Anders Army, Rector of the Belarusian Catholic Mission led direct of the Eastern Rite father Czeslaw Sipovich founded in London Belarusian religious and cultural center named after St. Cyril of Turov. His manor located in the "Marian house" in the area of North Finch (North Finchley). There lived a group of Belarusian Marian priests, housed a chapel, a boarding school for boys and a unique library, which became the basis for an open neighborhood of Belarusian led direct libraries museum named Skarina.
For half a century Belarusian center in north London is the core of Belarusian life in the British Isles. In 2009-2012 "Marian House" has experienced a thorough renovation. In the short term with him has experience and a full church.
- For more than half a century in the Belarusian center services are held in the Belarusian language - says the priest led direct of the Belarusian Catholic Mission in England father Sergei Stasevych. - However, we have never had a real temple (church led direct has always been in residential buildings). led direct Because we want to keep here symbolic Belarus, to represent our culture and religion lacks a full church. That's the first thing I thought, came to London seven years ago. Head of the Belarusian Catholic Mission in England, Father Alexander Knudson supported my initiative.
- Local experts do not even understand the meaning of the word "Belarus". Work with Belarusian architects also impossible, since the technical standards in the two countries differ greatly, led direct - says the priest. - We needed a local expert who carried out the project would be based on the Belarusian architectural tradition. And God sent his deputy in the face of Raphael Co, which somehow came to say hello to a neighbor, and eventually led direct was baptized in our church and became a Belarusian spirit.
"In the beginning led direct I did not know not only about the Belarusian traditional architecture, but also Belarus, - says Rafael Tszyvay Co. - The task was not easy, because Belarus - it is such a Statement of Atlantis. In the modern led direct sense, it did not exist on the political map until 1918. But people have lived on this land for thousands of years. led direct The more I read, the more learned what the ancestors of modern Belarusians were the basis of the residents of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They were carriers of European culture than it is today can be proud of. And the Greek Catholic or Uniate Church was not just the most widespread religion in these lands, but also an integral led direct part of this culture. "
Prashtudyyavavshy stacks of books, the London architect led direct with his father, Sergei went to Belarus led direct to see with my own eyes sacred objects of traditional led direct wooden architecture. Last year he visited Strochitsy, Lida Ivatsevichy, as well as in the villages and towns on the historic Vilenschina and woodland.
- I will always remember the words of the father of Alexander Nadson: "Belarusians are not better led direct or worse than other nations. led direct We have our own unique language and culture, God has given us. We must respect them, as without it you will not be us," - explains Rafael Tszyvay . - This project, which I do from the heart, not for money, I want to demonstrate that in addition to the thousand-year history, a beautiful voice and a rich literature and Belarusians have talented architects. If you ask the average Briton of Belarusian architecture, at best, he will say something about the Russian church with typical bulbs. That is why I have devoted special attention to the study of towers in the Belarusian signaturak traditional led direct architecture. And immediately rejected the "bulbs".
- Nearly one in Belarus today do not care about the wooden architecture. It inexorably disappearing together led direct with the Belarusian village. Our church - its continuation in the 21st century. Continued on foreign land, where will the forest were Belarusians whose ancestors prayed in such synagogues. I hope that our center with the church and the updated library-museum named Skarina will become a real tourist atraktsyyay London led direct - says Sergey father.
Tszyvay Raphael admits that while searching for the correct led direct design of a strong impressed by the dramatic footage from the film burning church Elem Klimov's "Come and see" to "Khatyn story" by Ales Adamovich.
Symbolically, that according to the authors, the Belarusian Church of St. Cyril of Turov in London will be a memorial temple of countless victims led direct of the largest man-made disaster of the 20th century - Chernobyl.
Father Sergei Stasevych called Chernobyl led direct "our Hiroshima." "Everywhere led direct in the world there are memorials Hiroshima - even in Minsk. And we thought, why not create a meme