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Rabbi against Krishna temple in Moscow

MOSCOW, APRIL 3. One of the leaders of Russia's Jewish community, Adolf Shayevich, has joined the Orthodox Christians in protesting against the building of a huge Krishna temple in Moscow by the local chapter of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

Last week more than one thousand Christians protested against the building of the temple and a Vedic Centre in Moscow.

``Russia does not have enough followers of this organisation to build such a huge temple. But if Krishna followers need such large buildings, they can build them on the Chukotka or Yamal Peninsula (Russia's sparsely populated far eastern regions) or somewhere else. There are a lot of places in the country,'' the Rabbi was quoted as saying by Interfax.

"A good clean room is enough to pray,'' he said commenting on the ISKCON plans to build the 38.5-metre-high Hindu temple. According to the ISKCON, there are 25,000 followers of Vaishnavism in Moscow, and as a registered religion they will fight for a temple in the Capital.

The Rabbi said that the project pursued by the ISKCON would provoke a negative reaction not only from religious people, but also from many Muscovites. — PTI

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