Anons ~ the video w/music of this Cathedral truly is mesmerizing & haunting…

Viral Images OfPutin's 'Cathedral Of War' Like "A Glimpse Of An Alien Civilization"

A massive traditional Red Square Victory Day parade is set for June 24th, postponed from its original May 9 date due to the coronavirus pandemic. To help mark the occasion, Russia officially opened a towering military-themed cathedral.

Putin’s cathedral of war embodies his civilisation state

Earlier this week, Kirill, the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow consecrated Russia’s new Cathedral of the Armed Forces in a forest 40 miles outside the capital. Travelling beyond kitsch into archaeofuturism, the building is spectacular, genuinely like nothing else on earth. Indeed, its mesmerising scale and steampunk ornamentation is almost like a glimpse of an alien civilisation (an impression only amplified by the Warhammer 40k video game music an anonymous Twitter wag added to its launch video).

Journalist Aris Roussinos colorfully described the many ways it stands as a bold memorial to the WWII Russian defeat over Nazi Germany on the eastern front as follows:

The cathedral itself is riveted together like a weapon of war. Clad in bronze and iron, its towers soar skywards like an array of ballistic missiles. Inside, a huge mosaic of Christ’s stern and all-seeing visage looms down into a gloomy interior with the verdigris hue of a time-worn cannon. Glittering mosaics portray the Holy Virgin and the martial saints keeping watch over Moscow’s World War II defenders, and Russian soldiers in modern uniforms proudly bearing their Kalashnikovs like modern martyrs.

==Umm Anons ~ the Cathedral is located in Patriot Park…

Cathedral lit up in the night at Patriot park complex outside Moscow== via RT.

The formal consecration ceremony of this newest and tallest Russian Orthodox cathedral church took place June 14th under Patriach Kirill of Moscow, accompanied by defense minister Sergei Shoigu.

With steel steps leading to the cathedral cast from melted-down Nazi tanks, its gilded domes surrounded by a vast museum to Russia’s military history containing relics like Hitler’s personal uniform, it is a temple to martial glory that goes far beyond Christianity, the architectural equivalent of a steppe khan drinking wine from the skull of a conquered foe.

From some angles the new cathedral does indeed look like something which merges futurist architecture or seemingly Sci-Fi inspiration with an ancient and medieval twist, such as the traditional Russian gold domes and Byzantine elements.

SAUCES:

https://unherd.com/thepost/putins-cathedral-of-war-embodies-his-civilisation-state/

https://twitter.com/arisroussinos/status/1272493307894149120?s=20

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/viral-images-putins-cathedral-war-glimpse-alien-civilization

by Tyler Durden ~~ Sun, 06/21/2020 - 07:35