You’ve got to have faith, faith, faith | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
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https://www.architectural-review.com/pictures/1180xany/4/2/7/3084427_ivan_mikhaylov_programm200_008.jpg In stark contrast, it was just 80 years earlier that the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, a symbol of the old order God-appointed autocracy of the Tsars, was spectacularly and publicly blown up and eventually flattened to make way for the Moskva Pool, built in 1958 – at the time the largest open-air swimming pool in the world. The story of the now famous cathedral is an allegory of Russia’s tumultuous relationship with the church, painstakingly rebuilt between 1995 and 2000. With every sparkling white marble slab, the Russian Orthodox Church reasserted its return to prominence after its defenestration during the enforced ‘state atheism’ of the Soviet era.
Since the fall of the USSR just 26 years ago, the Russian Orthodox Church has seen a resurgence, with 71 per cent of Russians identifying as Russian Orthodox Christians in 2015, nearly doubling since 1991.