The Intercession of Holy Virgin Cathedral in Kharkiv
The Intercession of Holy Virgin cathedral is the stone building of the cathedral was built by Cossacks outside of that time fortress boarders, near its northern wall, in 1689 instead of the wooden church. In that year the temple was sanctified by the metropolitan Abraham. The Intercession cathedral is the valuable monument of the Ukrainian architecture of the second part of XVII century. This is the baroque three cupola church, placed on the warm winter temple. The upper, cold church, is surrounded with the gallery and has united with the bell tower.
The brick patterned plat bands with the multisectoral cornices, the belt of rectangular hollows are added with the images of sun.
Since 1729the Intercession church has become the monastery’s and collegium’s. The temple had...
The unique Kyiv’s Saint Sofia belongs to the world’s masterpieces of the architecture, monuments of the history, culture and religion cults. Kyiv has been compared with Jerusalem, Konstantinopol or Rome along almost a thousand years. In 1990 all complex of Saint Sofia’s cathedral had put down in the List of world cultural inheritance of UNESCO as the unique monument of architecture and monumental painting.
The Greek-Catholic cathedral of Saint Yuriy is the pearl of Ukrainian architecture. The cathedral is situated on the west a little aside of historical centre of Lviv. Near the temple the park is approaching until the cathedral, the trees are calling with its silhouette and sculpture design. It as if goes on and finishes the hill’s slopes, creating the indissoluble whole of nature and architecture.