Brodsky 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.
St 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.
St 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.
St 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.
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