for the repose of the soul , we asked the cleric of the holy spirit cathedral in minsk, priest andrei lamakinr these and other questions. a church is a building, dedicated to god and intended for... for divine services. the lord is invisibly present in the temple and accepts our prayers. where two or three are gathered in my name, there i am among them - said the lord. here the heavenly power invisibly serves with us, therefore we can say that the temple is a piece of heaven on earth or an island of the heavenly kingdom. the orthodox temple contains a complex, inexhaustible symbol in its visibility. the meaning and significance of the architectural forms of the christian temple can be understood by considering the temple in its idea, as the fruit of god's dispensation, based on tradition, carefully preserved by the church. the christian temple has a heritage from the old testament temple, because the old testament... the temple in jerusalem was a place of god's special presence, and today it is believed that e we know that god is omnipresent, he himself tells us about this in the holy scriptu