God the Builder

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God the Builder
Today I read an pretty interesting article about the plan of the mayor of moscow to build 200 new churches in only 12 months.
I wanted to discuss this a bit with you guys.
So the mayor of moscow justifies this by saying, that there is only one church per 40.000 inhabitants in moscow.

That sounds first of all like an nice plan.
But 200 Churches in 12 months?
Every six/seven days a new church gets finished?

He also introduced a new bulding method:
The Construction Kit Method
There are two variants of models. One with only one round roof and the other one with 5 round roofs.
Every church will look almost the same from outside but has only a few different paintings inside. LOL

Let's take a look at other churches.
For example the dome in cologne (Germany)
It took nearly 600 years to finish it.

What do you think about it?
/discuss

[PS.: Moscow has about 11.1m inhabitants and 90% of them are russian orthodox.]
[PPS.: I'm an atheist]
If they're going to look anywhere near the St. Basil's Cathedral it would be awesome, the idea of having built 200 churches within one year is absurd though. Or is the mayor of Moscow just looking to fight unemployment?

On a sidenote: I've visited the Dome in Cologne a while back, quite impressive (:
What an idiot. The invisible hand is generally the best moderator for everything, 200 churches popping up in the middle of nowhere is definitely not a problem of any sort! Right? Not like churches were crowded to begin with and then people think oh lets build another rather then just adding a fixed number of churches to satisfy some ratio, or how about staffing those 200 churches. Maybe people weren't interested in religion enough to go to church everyday but still consider them a certain religion.

Prefabricated construction by machines > building a cathedral by hand. So, I don't think building them will be a problem, not like how they built the cathedrals back then in the 1400-1600s.
They don't necessarily have to build the churches one by one, they can be built all at the same time (or most), logically, so it doesn't sound that unbelievable, altought I don't see the purpose of that. Wasting so much money on building 200 churches just to improve churches-per-citizen ratio or something. Are they really that crowded in the first place?
I saw the title and i lol'd. Doubt they can in 12months. Y 200 though? Like 20 is good
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I saw the title and i lol'd. Doubt they can in 12months. Y 200 though? Like 20 is good
Why? I am pretty sure that modern construction works don't take a lot of time if done by the proper specialists with the proper equipement (those churches don't sound like they're going to be some kind of massive White House-size buildings anyways). Plus, workers in Russia can always drink some vodka for motivation and incerase in working speed.
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I saw the title and i lol'd. Doubt they can in 12months. Y 200 though? Like 20 is good
I lol'ed when I saw the article with this title in the news.
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