SOVIET'S ANTI-CHRIST CAMPAIGN.
MAIN CENTRE OF ORTHODOXY TO CLOSE (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Monday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, July 11. The Daily Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent says the drive against Christianity has entered a new phase ■'with the forcible closing preparatory to the destruction of the hig Epiphany Church in the suburb of Dorogomilovskaya, the main centre of Orthodoxy in Moscow. It was recently renovated at the expense of the poor congregation and is the sole remaining large church. He also named the Epiphany Church in the Elohovskaya district, which is also threatened. Twenty small churches remain of 453 pre-revolutionary cathedrals and churches, 25 convents and 800 chapels.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1938, Page 3
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