The section «Religion» on our website is devoted to the study of the history and culture of religious traditions in Kyiv. We talk about the history of the emergence and significance of various religious denominations in Kyiv, their shrines and temples. We give information about the location of each temple and how best to get to it. We also provide interesting facts about various religious rites and traditions that have been preserved in Kyiv. Our section is also devoted to little-known and forgotten religious monuments, which also have their own history and cultural significance. If you are interested in the religious culture of Kyiv, then our section «Religion» will help you learn more about this amazing city and its religious traditions.
On Easter, April 30, 2000, the city department for family and youth affairs held the Easter Bells event. The head of the department, Kyiv City Council deputy Alexander Kulik, addressed the residents of the area with a proposal – to build a temple of God on this site. Priest Sergius Petlenko also made a call … Read more
On October 14, 1994, the ceremony of laying the foundation of a church with a bell tower in honor of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary took place – a church similar to the one that was located in the Zaporozhye Sich during the liberation struggle of Hetman Bohdan-Zinovy Khmelnytsky. The Cossack Church is … Read more
The idea of building the Intercession Church with the Platonov altar – in memory of Metropolitan Plato, who died on October 1, 1891 – belonged to the Kyiv mayor Stepan Solsky. At the end of the 19th century, there was not a single church on Solomenka, at that time a developed and densely populated outskirts … Read more
The idea of building a temple in honor of St. Spyridon of Trimifuntsky arose during preparations for bringing the relics of the saint to Ukraine back in 2009. The temple was designed with five domes; the dome structures on drums were mounted on the temple ready-made. The technology of manufacturing them on a metal frame … Read more
The idea of building a temple on the territory of Kyiv Regional Hospital No. 1 belonged to the chief physician Nikolai Ankin and the rector of the local Orthodox community, Protodeacon Vasily Ozimchuk. On December 17, 2008, on the day of remembrance of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church … Read more
After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Kiev residential area Belichi began to be actively developed to provide apartments for displaced people from Pripyat, Chernobyl and the exclusion zone. After some time, the settlers, liquidators and members of their families turned to the state administration with a request to somehow perpetuate the … Read more