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Orthodox Divers Building Underwater Church

October 1, 2015 By Fr. John 4 Comments

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It’s not enough that we have real Orthodox churches at the North and South poles on mountain tops, in deep areas, deserts and more. Now the Orthodox Church will sanctify the bottom of the sea, with icons and everything – starting with a three ton Cross.

Divers in Crimea have erected a large cross in the shape of an anchor off the Crimean coast. It heralds the start of construction work on building what they promise will be a full blown underwater church.
The three-ton cross is just the beginning of an ambitious plan by Archimandrite Tikhon, a diving enthusiast and the project’s initiator.

“The underwater church will look like a church. There will be icons inside – just like in a real church. Most probably they will be bas-reliefs of icons in stainless steel or stone,” RIA Novosti cites him as saying.

He said that architects are currently working on the details and that the winter storm season will show whether the divers placed the cross correctly.

The cross is 20 meters below sea level, 200 meters from the Crimean shore in a place called Cape Fiolent. A buoy will be attached to allow divers to locate it more easily. In a bid to attract more visitors, the cross’s exact location will be mapped.

Before the summer season ends, divers also plan to install a table and massive concrete candle holders near the cross. Archimandrite Tikhon also wants to turn the underwater spot into a kind of museum of Crimean history with fragments of ammunition and military ships on site. The exhibits would date back to two of the largest and lengthiest military defense operations in the area – in 1854-1855 and 1941-1942.

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The site is near Sevastopol. Its location and navigability of the Black Sea have made the city a strategically important port and naval base throughout history.

It is reported that ‘the underwater church’ will be named after St Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors.

Source: RT

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  1. Ilya Zhitomirskiy says

    October 3, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    What will happen in the underwater church? It is certainly interesting and surprising to see, but I hope that this is not some PR stunt. If it is “for real” and helps improve the Faith, keep the flame alive for those who already believe, or is some novel way to help others, then I’m all for it. It would also be cool if services were held in it.

  2. Fr. John says

    October 4, 2015 at 9:32 pm

    People will pray there. It seems it is being built by a scuba diving clergyman, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it sitting idle.

  3. tp70000fun says

    October 5, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    great idea.this is thinking “out of the box”.

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