A meeting of the Architectural and Art History Commission was held at the Rostov Diocesan Administrationtranslated

On November 9, 2026, with the blessing of the Head of the Don Metropolis, Metropolitan Mercury of Rostov and Novocherkassk, a regular meeting of the Architectural and Art Commission of the Don Metropolis was held under the chairmanship of Priest Alexander Litvinenko.

The work of the commission was attended by the deputy chairman and diocesan architect Roman Fomenko, the head of the department for work with the Cossacks, the rector of the Patriarchal Ascension Military All-Cossack Cathedral of the city of Novocherkassk, Archpriest Georgy Smorkalov, the architect of the Diocesan Architectural and Construction Department Anastasia Astakhova, as well as the chairman of the art history commission of the Shakhtinsk diocese, the head of the economic and construction department, Priest Georgy Bolotskov.

At the meeting, projects for new churches and their interiors, church and clergy houses, as well as issues of beautification of churches on the territory of the Rostov-on-Don diocese were considered.