Say What?!: Siberian Man Builds His Village a Church Out of Snow

churchSOSNOVKA, Siberia – A Siberian man solved his remote village’s church shortage by building a 10-foot-tall Orthodox house of worship out of snow.

Former construction worker Aleksandr Bityokhin, 41, said it took him about 45 days to carve the small church out of snow so that Orthodox residents of his village, Sosnovka, would have somewhere to worship without traveling dozens of miles to the nearest facility.

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(Photo courtesy Aleksandr Bityokhin)


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