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In 1870, when the British community in Moscow has grown enough and the only chapel could not accommodate all the parishioners, the question of building a new church. In August 1878 a letter was sent to the Moscow company in London. The letter said the poor state of the chapel and the need to build a new one. At the same time began a discussion about architecture. It was decided to collect donations and pass the English architect, as was elected Richard Neal Freeman. His name was known to those who came from the English county of Lancashire, as Freeman lived and worked there. Neil Freeman is a lot of built in Britain: schools, libraries, private homes and churches. He sent to Moscow plans typically English church in the style of Victorian Gothic. The Anglican Church of St. Andrew Moscow Church of England was not only a place of prayer and worship, but also a center of social life of the community. The building of the church were a library, meeting room, library. The First World War is directly touched the British community in Moscow - about 85 of its members have served in the army. In Moscow, the British organized a British hospital, which cared for more than 1,300 wounded Russian soldiers, and prepared more than 800 free meals for the refugees.
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