how sad.... I hope everyone was evacuated.

It was such a beautiful church too (almost as beautiful as the one in Barcelona...) How sad...

~Master Shake~

I find it odd that it hasn't made mainstream American news yet. What gives? We must be really mad at the Russians.

I looked for it on Fox and CNN and ABC and couldnt find anything either.

It's sad...I thought for a second it was the church in Petrapalovskaya Krepost...That would have been sad! I have many great memories of St. P...

it appears that the fire was started by Bush, and since he controls the media, he is deciding how to spin it against the Dems...

It was on Yahoo news.
I read three different articles, and nobody even mentioned a possible cause. I thought that was odd.

They were in the middle of restoring the dome, and they say it will be rebuilt within 18 months.
That seems fast...

BBC is carrying the story. The chats underneath the pictures have the link. The BBC article states that it was caused by a welders' lamp igniting some gas.