Religious Heritage
13 objects documented in this category
Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral
The Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration of the Saviour) Cathedral was built as the city’s principal church. The neoclassical building was located on a city square and served as the focal point of...
St. George Church
St. George’s Church in the village of Zavorychi was built in 1873. This single-domed wooden church represented the architectural trends of the late 19th century. The church survived the Second...
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was listed as a monument of national importance. It was one of the best examples of wooden architecture in the...
All Saints’ Monastery of the Sviatohirska Lavra
The complex was rebuilt on the original stone foundations of an earlier structure, which had been destroyed in 1947. Construction was carried out by local and Carpathian craftsmen without any...
Church of Ihor of Chernihiv
The church was an elegant five-domed structure built of white stone in the traditional Russo-Byzantine style. The central drum and four side towers were crowned with large gilded onion domes,...
Church of St. Macarius
It was the oldest church in the city. The church was constructed from local stone on a substantial plinth, following the canonical cross-in-square plan. Its total length, including the tall...
Church of the Blessed Virgin of the Sign (Svyato-Znamenska)
The building was originally constructed as the private family church of the wealthy Gusev merchant family. Its architecture was unique within the Dnipro region. The unknown architect employed a rare...
Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”
The church was built as a two-tiered structure in a refined Neoclassical style with elements of Baroque. In 2022, it was severely damaged by a missile strike. Later, after de-occupation,...
Church of the Intercession (Pokrovska)
The church was designed in a restrained and elegant Classical style, with a cruciform plan, a large central dome, and a tall bell tower rising above the western entrance. The...
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The building was constructed in a grand Russo-Byzantine style. Its design partially echoed the silhouette of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, with a monumental centralised volume crowned by a massive...
Synagogue of Novozlatopil
This was the principal choral synagogue serving the colonists of Novozlatopil. The synagogue was a large, monumental red-brick building, with a galvanised iron roof. In November 1929, the Soviet authorities...
Uspenskyi (Dormition) Cathedral
The Uspenskyi (Dormition) Cathedral is the principal church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a monastery complex inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Originally built in the Byzantine tradition, the cathedral...
Holy Presentation Church (Vvedenska)
The Holy Presentation (Vvedenska) Church in Beryslav had the status of an Architectural Monument of National Importance and was one of the only surviving example of Zaporozhian church architecture of...