Kosovo authorities are preparing to demolish the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Pristina
The separatist Albanian regime, which illegally seized power in Kosovo, a region illegally separated from Serbia, plans to demolish the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Pristina, unfinished before the war, and create a so-called “genocide museum” on this site.
Formally, the initiative was put forward by the student organization “Studentska demokratija Medžita Ramusa”. However, according to the publication Kurir, behind the “students” are the so-called “President of Kosovo” Hashim Thaci and “Prime Minister” Ramush Haradinaj.
The publication recalls that the temple has been repeatedly desecrated and vandalized since 1999; in 2016 it was set on fire and then turned into a public toilet and landfill.
Other Albanian institutions also laid claim to the territory. At one time, the University of Pristina wanted to obtain the land on which the church was built.
“In 1999, forty thousand Serbs were expelled from Pristina, and in Kosovo and Metohija, more than 150 Orthodox churches and monasteries were destroyed, and more than two hundred thousand of our compatriots were expelled from their homes... We are talking about the legalization of the practice of ethnic cleansing, discrimination and destruction of Serb cultural monuments and Orthodox religious sites,” said the official representative of the Serbian Revival Movement (SPO) and MP Aleksandar Cotric, quoted by Informer.
The politician recalled that over the past twenty years, due to the difficult situation in the region, the temple was not completed and not protected, but was used as a warehouse, a dump, a gathering place for the homeless and the recording of inappropriate music videos.
Cotrić is the head of the Serbian parliamentary delegation to the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy. He has already invited KFOR, the UN Mission and other representatives of the international community in Kosovo and Metohija to protect the unfinished temple.
The administration of the Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, has already stated that the land plot under the unfinished church belongs to the SOC, and the cathedral will be completed.
“The Diocese (of Raška-Prizren) plans to complete the construction of this church and use it for worship when the conditions and financial possibilities are met. This temple can only be a monumental building of the Serbian Orthodox Church... Legal procedures, property rights and religious freedom must be respected,” the Patriarchate said.
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