Sat 23rd December 2023.
This afternoon we piled into the hire car for an afternoon ride out, Peter had discovered an interesting church en route to Altea and that was our first port of call.
After the end of the cold war the coastal resorts north of Alicante became popular with Russians. But until 2007 many of the Russians in the area didn’t have a suitable place to worship.
A Russian entrepreneur decided to change that funding the construction of Spain’s first purpose built orthodox church.The magnificent structure is built largely from wood, designed to be a copy of a 17th century church, the materials were imported from Russia and built by specialised Russian craftsmen.
The interior is adorned as you would expect to see inside a Russian church, and on the outside it has golden onion shaped domes.
It’s impossible not to appreciate the art work and skills of all those involved but for me it’s a little too much over the top.
taraabit 