Southern Moldova and Gagauzia

In Cahul, there is an old church of the Shroud of Mother of God. The Lipovans, old-believers, have built in Cahul a place of worship. The church was built of red brick and it has coloured stained glass windows and metal doors. It also had a cell and a library that were not preserved. The bell tower has crumbled and the original version of the murals was not preserved. Having been renovated in 1913, the church was closed in 1963, when the nearby cemetery, where "soldiers killed in Russo-Turkish wars were buried in mass graves", was demolished. In 1989, on the initiative of the president of this religious community at the time, the church was renovated and restored, the works being completed in 1994.

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