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z • <br /> SAINT PAUL PIONEER PRESS <br /> 8 TH NQ • <br /> , <br /> 1 — SECTION <br /> H PAGES <br /> _LVE I RO <br /> I <br /> i <br /> r r , <br /> I <br /> L p } <br /> M , <br /> Va <br /> [k <br /> C ABOVE: <br /> Father Grego- <br /> Parishioners <br /> ry Podhurec, <br /> assisted by <br /> subdeacon ■ <br /> it await answer <br /> Raasch,con- <br /> ducts <br /> ducts Christ- i P � [R��M � t <br /> mas Day ser- <br /> vices <br /> day In ues n (( to their prayers <br /> day n the j I � � 1 � � �,t , � �.. <br /> basement of T---— <br /> the rectory 01 <br /> of Sts. ' <br /> Voiodymyr ong on faith,but short on cash,a tiny Ukrainian Ortho- <br /> and Olga L dox congregation observed Christmas on Tuesday in a <br /> Ukrainian paneled basement chapel next door to the magnificent <br /> Orthodox Arden Hills church they built but can't yet call their own: <br /> Church.The The 70 members of Sts.Volodymr and Olga Ukrainian <br /> service was ' Orthodox Church are locked out of the <br /> In the rectory BY CYNTHIA $2.5 mullion Byzantine-baroque structure <br /> because the they'll name St.Katherine's—once <br /> contractor is t BOYD they find another$550,000 to finish <br /> keeping paying building costs. <br /> doors to a WAIT COLUhINIST The empty, 15,000-square-foot new <br /> new church church sits along Highway 96,a striking <br /> locked until PIONEER PRESS PHOTOS BY CRAIG BORCK structure with five copper-domed cupolas:a sanctuary,a <br /> he is paid. connecting passageway and a great hall for parish func- <br /> tions.It's a symbol,the parishioners say,of prayer not <br /> RIGHT:An untrimmed tree stands in the ark- • <br /> p yet answered. <br /> ing lot of the Russian Orthodox Church under "It's hard to see the building standing there and we are <br /> construction in Arden Hills,Minn.The parish is not in the building,but we have hope,"said Carla Ryan, <br /> short about$550,000 to complete construction, a Woodbury woman who brought her two young sons to <br /> so the contractor has locked the doors until he services to mark the Eastern Orthodox Christmas.Christ- <br /> Is paid.Parishioners held Christmas Eve services <br /> Monday In the basement rectory. <br /> CHURCH CONTINUED ON 3D <br />