FIFTY CHURCHES SHUT
SOVIET USES THEM FOR CAFES AND CLUBS INHABITANTS’ REQUEST MOSCOW, Thursday. Almost on the eve of the Papal mass of expiation for the anti-religi-ous persecutions in Russia the Soviet decided to have 56 more churches closed. Petitions by a majority of the inhabitants of the districts concerned stated that they were determined to close the buildings and devote them to the purposes of clubs, libraries, cafes and laboratories.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 11
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71FIFTY CHURCHES SHUT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 11
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