While in Pyongyang, Putin intends to visit the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, originally commissioned by Kim Jong Il.
The North Korean leader initiated the construction of this church in 2002 after being inspired by his visit to the Church of St. Innocent of Irkutsk in Khabarovsk during a trip to the Far East.
The Pyongyang temple was consecrated in 2006 by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who is now the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
In 2013, a Russian diplomat asked Kim Jong-il whether there were any Orthodox believers in Pyongyang, and Kim replied that believers would be found.
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