Santa Caterina Martire in Rome is an Orthodox church, dependent on the Russian Church Patriarchate. It was built in the park of Villa Abamelek belonging to the Russian embassy in Italy. You can admire valuable religious monuments, which include: the ark with relics of Saint Helena and a marble iconostasis decorated with frescoes.
Iconostasis is the work of Soldatov, a teacher of icon painting, working at the Moscow Theological Academy. The temple also stores: an ark with a fragment of the "Honest and Life-giving Tree of the Lord's Cross" and an ark containing relics of St. Catherine the Great.
The construction of the church began in 2001, when the foundation stone was laid, the ceremony was attended by the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov. Initially, the project to erect an Orthodox temple in Rome aroused great controversy, it was stormed that a building dedicated to the Orthodox church was to be erected in the "Catholic capital".
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