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Temple in Cosnita

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There is unfortunately not a great deal of information known about the temple of Cosnita village. The first appearance of the church dates from the early XX century. Being somewhat  grand in its architecture and size the church was laid in 1903, but finished only in 1913. The church was mentioned in the documents of the Great Patriotic War. The cloister however did suffer in the fighting of 1944 and again in 1992 years. However, the events of May 1944 were the worst as it was serving as an observatory and for this reason it was heavily shelled by the defending Germans.

The Temple of Cosnita has now been restored with the dome of the temple completely rebuilt, as the war did not spare them. There are still places where there are traces of fire with various holes denoting presumably traces from aircraft guns.

Recently there was a requiem service for 6 Red Army soldiers whose remains were found on the outskirts of the village cemetery.

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"The names of the Soviet soldiers are unknown, among the things found near one of them was that  of buttons with anchors, so we can safely say that one of the fighters was probably a Marine."

The reburial ceremony was organised by the local authorities with the assistance of the Ministry of Defence of Moldova. All 6 were given military honours and were reburied at the memorial near the graves of hundreds of other Soviet soldiers killed in Moldova.

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Address:
Moldova, dis. Dubasari, v. Cosnita