An old burned-out church in the Donetsk region



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An old burned-out church in the Donetsk region

Photo: GSChS

Church destroyed by fire

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is one of the oldest churches in the Diocese of Horlivka and Slavic of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

In the city of Liman, Donetsk region, the Church of St. Peter and Paul was burned in the mid-19th century. This was reported by the State Emergency Service on Tuesday, September 8.

It is noted that today at 13:58 a message was received on the telephone of the rescue service about a fire in the church on Petropavlovskaya Street.

“The fighters from the State 21 Fire and Rescue Detachment, who arrived at the scene, discovered that the Church of San Pedro and San Pablo was on fire. Rescuers immediately began putting out the fire. Considering that the temple building is made of wood and there was heavy smoke, an increase in the phone number was announced. 2 “, – says the message.

33 people and nine teams participated in the extinction. The area of ​​the fire was 200 square meters. m and quickly spread to 600 square meters. meter.

At 16:06 the fire was contained and at 17:10 it was extinguished. No damage done. But judging from the published photos, the church building was completely destroyed.

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is one of the oldest churches in the Diocese of Horlivka and Slavic of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. The church was built in 1848. Before it, an ancient temple stood in this place since 1700.

Earlier, a wooden church built in 1898 caught fire in the village of Lukavtsy, Chernivtsi region. Firefighters prevented the fire from spreading to other buildings located on the temple territory.

A wooden church of Saint Basil the Great was also reported to have caught fire in the city of Irshava in Transcarpathia.

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