OREANDA-NEWS. On 8 September 2009 was announced, that the city authorities of Moscow approved the project aimed at building an Armenian chapel at Poklonnaya Hill.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov signed the decision to allocate a site for the chapel development.

A source from City Hall reminded that the order to elaborate construction documents on the object was approved in spring 2007. According to him, the chapel with the total area of 725 square metres, including the 500-square-metre substructure, is to be erected on the 0.11-hectare site. The construction period is not fixed yet.

When the chapel is commissioned, all its areas will be transferred into the ownership of the Russian and Novo-Nakhichevanskaya Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

The source said there already was an Orthodox Church, a mosque and a synagogue within Poklonnaya Hill memorial complex in Moscow.