The Patriarchal metochion of the Moscow Alexeevsky monastery seeking the return of the Russian Orthodox Church buildings all-Russian research Institute of fisheries and Oceanography (VNIIR), reports RIA Novosti. As stated by the abbess of the monastery, the head of the legal service of the Moscow Patriarchy Xenia (Chernega), the reason for going into law was the ruin of the institution of the tomb of the abbess.
According to her, the remains of the superiors of the monastery were taken out of the tomb in bags, after which place their final resting place was constructed a swimming pool for the breeding of crabs.
VNIIR building was rebuilt in the Soviet years, from the Church of the exaltation of the cross. According to superior, the use of the building for purposes other than the purpose of its creation, or the reconstruction, re-planning is not enshrined in the law “On transfer to religious organizations of property of religious appointment” as the reason of the loss of the building status property to religious purposes.
Therefore, it cannot be a basis for denial of the donation of the building by a religious organization, said the abbess. “In this case the transfer shall be subject to all the premises of the disputed building as separate premises of the Church built and built-over space is impossible,” she said.
According to abbess, farmstead requests to transfer the building VNIIR free use of the Church, while maintaining it in Federal ownership. “Information about the alleged I made on the court’s statement about the impending demolition of the building VNIIR is unreliable” she said, noting that the user can carry the object owned by the state.
The Agency had previously denied the ROC in the transfer of the building, explaining the decision by the fact that the disputed object is a “non-modern five-storey building to the year 1939”. However, the courts of first and second instance granted the petition, finding the decision of Rosimushchestvo illegal.