De rollende kerken van Boekarest

The Schitul Maicilor church in Romania, one of 13 churches that were moved on rails. Photograph: Courtesy of Eugeniu Iordăchescu

“It must be startling to look out of your window and see a centuries-old church rolling by. Even more so if you are in communist Romania in the 1980s, where news is state-controlled and everyday items rationed. And yet, between 1982 and 1988 almost a dozen churches, as well as other buildings, were moved hundreds of metres in order to save them from destruction, as dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu went about radically redesigning the heart of Bucharest, the Romanian capital.”

Theguardian.com/cities/2016/dec/14/bucharest-moved-churches-safety-communist-romania