The latter informed the hierarchs that the USSR government had decided to return the Danilov Monastery “to create in it and on the adjacent site the Administrative Center of the Moscow Patriarchate; The construction of new office premises on this territory is also permitted”.

[6] In this church, the rite of naming bishops is often performed, and their consecration takes place during the liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

[7] It was here that in early October 1993 negotiations took place between representatives of President Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet of Russia, conducted through the mediation of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Mistakes made during construction, perhaps related to the imperfection of technology at that time, led to the fact that the building began to collapse.

So we rebuilt the foundation, resurfaced the entire area around the building, providing the necessary waterproofing, and then moved on to a very deep interior renovation.