Foregrouind, from left: Mikhail Shepilov, Commander of the Russian Interior Ministry's North Caucasian Task Force, Police Colonel General Arkady Yedelev, Head of the Command Center in the Chechen Republic and Deputy Russian Interior Minister, Father-Superior Varlaam [Ponomaryov] of the Grozny-based Archangel Michael Church of the Chechen-Ingush Diocese, and Bishop Feofan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz during opening of the Heart of Chechnya mosque named after Akhmad Kadyrov, the first Chechen President, in Grozny. The huge mosque can accommodate 10,000 believers.
- Categories: Politics, Religion & Belief
- Location: Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia
- Event date: 17.10.2008
- Date published: 17.10.2008
- Author: Dmitriy Nikiforov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
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