Choijin Lama Temple and Museum in the centre of Ulaanbaatar near our hotel. The Stalinist repressions in Mongolia had their climax between 1937 and 1939 , under the leadership of Khorloogiin Choibalsan by Russian instructions. During the repression period, Mongolia's religious institutions were virtually all destroyed, their property appropriated, and the lamas killed.
All together, 2,265 monastery buildings were destroyed and over 71.5 tons of metal statutes shipped to the USSR for scrap.