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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 11-19-2008, 08:19 AM:

An entire church has been stolen from a village in Russia.

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Russian church 'taken by thieves'

A 200-year-old church building has disappeared from a village in central Russia, officials from the Russian Orthodox Church say.

The building had stood near the village of Komarovo since 1809.

It was intact in July but some time in early October thieves made off with it brick by brick, they said.

Local prosecutors had been informed and an investigation was under way, a spokesman for the local Russian Orthodox Church said.

The disappearance of the Church of the Resurrection, some 300 km (186 miles) north-east of Moscow, was not immediately noticed.

It was in an out-of-the-way area and was not being used, although Church officials were considering resuming services there.

Now all that remained of the two-storey building - a school before it was turned over to the Church - were its foundations and some sections of wall, the Church said.

Thieves often target churches in rural Russia. Religious icons can be sold and church structures sold off for building materials.

How could they not notice that it had gone missing? [Confused]

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 11-19-2008, 01:02 PM:

Interest in religion in Russia must be really on the wane. They may have noticed, but just didn't care. You know, the ole --

"Hey, the Church of the Resurrection seems to be missing."

"Yah? So...."

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 11-19-2008, 02:14 PM:

Dodgy-looking bloke with Russian accent comes up to you in the pub:

Wanna buy a cheap watch?

No.

How about a nice church?

Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 11-19-2008, 03:50 PM:

Just Wait-
It will probably show up on e-bay! [Big Grin]

Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 11-19-2008, 04:15 PM:

How can you steal a building brick-by-brick and no one notice? Is this for real?

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 11-19-2008, 05:09 PM:

In Soviet Russia, church steals you.

Posted by Tyler Potts (Member # 4952) on 11-19-2008, 05:47 PM:

I would love to see something like that. I'm driving around the bend to point out the church to a friend and all that's left is a chimney, a wall, and some bloke on the 2nd floor in a bath tub looking as confused as me.

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 11-19-2008, 07:15 PM:

That's what they get for going after Georgia.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 11-19-2008, 07:31 PM:

That must be the new Church going up down the street from the local Mormon Temple.....

Mark

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 11-22-2008, 12:40 PM:

They took the CHURCH! The whole fucking church!

Posted by Tom Mundell (Member # 4555) on 11-23-2008, 06:24 PM:

Hilarious, Randy!

quote: Mike Olpin
In Soviet Russia, church steals you.

Hmm, while we're at it, perhaps...

1. Steal church brick by brick
2. ???
3. Prophet!

Seriously though, you'd think at some point in time someone would have come along and noticed the church wasn't quite as tall as it used to be or something prior to the whole thing being gone...