Brotherhood of the All-Merciful Saviour Charity restaurant for poor people and Sunday School The start of economic reform led to a sharp decreasing of citizen's life level. The number of people living below the poverty level is increasing, they need charity help of the Church. Lonely and eldest people and invalids can neither buy necessary foodstuffs nor use public feeding enterprises. Charity and religious education are the main activity directions of the Brotherhood of All-Merciful Saviour working by blessing of Patriarch Alexey II. The necessity of establishing charity restaurant in the region of St. Nicolas Church is apparent, but the hard financial state of the Brotherhood and the parish makes it difficult to organize the restaurant by their own efforts. It is necessary to open this restaurant for poor parishioners in the nearest time. The restaurant is considered for 200-250 persons getting their dinner in several supersessions. Just now the Brotherhood organizes a small feeding station for poor people based on kitchen of the parish. Since 1990 the Brotherhood opened the Sunday School of children's religious education and upbringing. Four hundred children divided into 27 groups learning the God's Law and 3 choir groups study there in 1991/92 year. 32 teachers conduct lessons in the School free of charge. The Sunday School hires the house for lessons on Saturdays and Sundays; it has no own buildings yet. The Sunday School needs also a feeding station for children going to School from divine service. This apartment should fit also to conduct lessons using video and audio equipment. For the restaurant we suppose to use the old building - "priest's house", situated near the St. Trinity Church in Vishnyaky (Moscow, Pyatnitskaya st. 51) that was given to Brotherhood's posession. The St. Trinity Church in Vishnyaky is situated in a historical part of Moscow, in the region named Zamoskvorechye (see photo). Buildings in the streets are valuable in artistic and historical aspects; the latter puts special conditions for reconstruction. Primarily the building for the restaurant belonged tot. Trinity Church's clergy; it was built in the early of XIX century. Nowadays there is partially kept only decorative trimming of the facades. Wooden walls and covering constructions are in an accidental state. * We foresee carrying the building away and rebuilding its face in future. The possible planning decision of the dining-room - video-hall is shown on the plan. The volume of the building 2,500 m Approximate cost of building $30,000 Approximate cost of restaurant equipment $2,000 Cost of video-hall equipment $5,220 - $15,220 * We have a contract with the Christian Charity Fund on providing the foodstuffs to the restaurant. * The Brotherhood agrees to be responsible for building organization, paying the restaurant staff and exploiatation of the house. * Building can be organized with russian workers and with local materials. It is possible also to use building elements ordered in europian countries thus putting the house into operation earlier. Text prepared by Boris Markus, Architect tel. 202-03-31, 187-99-31; Asya Kuvshinova, technologist; Dimitry Menkov, director of the Sunday School, tel. 141-25-71; Address: Russia 113184, Moscow, Pyatnitskaya st. 51, building 1. Executive director Oleg Bobrakov, tel. 426-12-18. The list of necessary restaurant equipment manufactured in Russia, in account of 200 persons in 4 supersessions. 1. Boiler 160 (160 litres) 1 2. Boiler 250 (250 litres) 1 3. Range -4 (4 gas rings) 2 4. Boiler -60 2 5. Boiler -100 1 6. Electric boiling device 100 1 7. Universal vegetable cutting machine -II 1 8. Mincing machine -250 1 9. Potatoes cleaning machine -100 1 10.Bred cutting machine -200 1 11.Marmits on distribution -110 1 12. "-"-" -84-01 1 13.Crockery washing machine -700 1 14.Refrigerating machine -4-1-2 (cooling capacity 3000 kkal/h) 1 15.Squeezing lift with a cabin 1000x1500 1 16.Furniture for a diving hall for 50 persons 17.Furniture for the kitchen. List of the Sunday School video-room equipment. 1. Tapecorder of Panasonic C35 class 2x$460 2. TV set 72 - 68 cm 2x$1.110 3. Videocamera of Panasonic M9 class 1x$1,600 4. Acoustic system 1x$500 ------------------ Total $5,220 5.Projector with a screen 1x$10,000 ------------------ Total $15,220