Moscow. August 22. INTERFAX-REAL ESTATE – illegal works in Church of the Ascension to the address of Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya St., 24/21A, a structure 1 Are suspended, reported in Mosgornaslediya's press service.
There emphasized that to the user of church prevented to distort a type of a monument of a cultural heritage of federal value of the address of vigilant citizens to the hot line.
Thanks to them Department of Cultural Heritage of the city of Moscow really recorded the fact of conducting repair work on facades, namely: on a white stone socle the reinforcing framework is mounted and the timbering for the purpose of the subsequent filling by concrete is established. And, by considerable part of a socle the specified works at the time of survey already were carried out. Project documentation on carrying out these works in Department of Cultural Heritage of the city of Moscow did not arrive, permission to their carrying out was not given.
"Need to express separate gratitude to vigilant citizens who reported about illegal works – thanks to them it was succeeded to prevent in time damage of a characteristic white stone Moscow socle of the building" — Aleksey Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, the head emphasized Department of Cultural Heritage of the city of Moscow.
to Users of the temple the instruction on a suspension of construction works is issued to. Now work on initiation of proceedings about an administrative offense is carried out.
Department of Cultural Heritage of the city of Moscow reminds that any works on objects of a cultural heritage have to be coordinated with department. Carrying out uncoordinated works is fraught with distortion of historical and architectural shape of the building. Such works have to be suspended, and the owner or the user are obliged to return to a monument an original form.