Chapel and Sunday School burned down in Rostov-on-Don after threats to parishioners

On December 16, in the outskirt of Anatoly Sobino Park, in the Zheleznodorozhny District of Rostov-on-Don, a small chapel, in the place of which they had planned to build a church, was burnt down. Besides, the temporary building of the Sunday School was blitzed.

Unidentified persons broke a window with a brick, broke into the chapel, scattered everything there and set fire to it. A similar pogrom was arranged in the Sunday School, the "161.ru" reports.

A metropolis source has accused opponents of building a church in the park of the arson.

Both buildings are temporary trailers, equipped by parishioners, on whose initiative a parish appeared three years ago, the TASS writes with reference to press service of the Rostov-on-Don Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

"Internet provocateurs are responsible for the high degree of social hatred and enmity that led to the arson and pogrom," the "Interfax" quotes Igor Petrovsky, the press secretary of the Head of the Don Metropolis.

According to his story, earlier, threats and accusations appeared on the Internet against the congregation, stating that parishioners had cut down all the trees and captured the best place in the park.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.