Kyiv guide

Churches and temples of Kyiv

Kyiv's cathedrals, monasteries, Catholic churches and synagogues — from the princely era to the early 20th century.

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Temple · PecherskyiKyiv-Pechersk LavraA monastery founded in 1051 in caves above the Dnipro: the Dormition Cathedral, the Trinity Gate Church, the Great Bell Tower and underground passages with saints' relics.
Temple · PecherskyiSt Nicholas Roman Catholic ChurchHorodecki's Gothic Revival church with twin 60-metre spires: a church, a warehouse, an archive, an organ hall — and a church again, awaiting rescue after the 2021 fire.
Temple · ShevchenkivskyiBrodsky Choral Synagogue in Kyiv: History and ArchitectureThe Brodsky Choral Synagogue on Shota Rustaveli Street opened in 1898. Discover how it was built through a clever trick, lost in Soviet times and reborn.
Temple · ShevchenkivskyiSt Sophia CathedralThe principal church of Kyivan Rus, built in the first half of the 11th century, with thirteen domes, the largest surviving set of mosaics and frescoes of its age and a Baroque bell tower over Sofiiska Square.
Temple · ShevchenkivskyiSt Michael's Golden-Domed MonasteryA 12th-century monastery destroyed by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s and rebuilt in the late 1990s, now the main cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, its wall lined with the faces of fallen defenders.
Temple · PodilskyiSt Andrew's ChurchBartolomeo Rastrelli's Baroque church on steep St Andrew's Hill above Podil, with five green domes, a gilded iconostasis and a terrace commanding one of Kyiv's finest views.
Temple · ShevchenkivskyiSt Volodymyr's CathedralA yellow, seven-domed cathedral on Shevchenko Boulevard, built for the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Rus, with murals by Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov, Pavel Svedomsky and Mikhail Vrubel.
Temple · PodilskyiSt Cyril's ChurchA 12th-century church at Dorohozhychi, burial place of the Olhovych princes, with Baroque façades by Hryhorovych-Barskyi, medieval frescoes and murals and icons by Mikhail Vrubel.
Temple · PecherskyiVydubychi MonasteryA monastery founded by Prince Vsevolod above the Dnipro in 1070, with the 11th-century St Michael's, the Baroque St George's Cathedral and the Botanical Garden's lilacs next door.
Temple · PecherskyiAskold's GraveA park on the Dnipro slopes where, the chronicle says, Prince Askold was buried: Andrii Melenskyi's Empire rotunda, a lost cemetery and the graves of today's fallen soldiers.