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The plan to build a temple in Ukraine were announced by the LDS Church on 20 July 1998. [7] The announcement was unique in that it came eight years after missionaries entered the country, [8] and was the first temple outside the United States to be dedicated within twenty years of the church entering the country. [6]
The Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, also referred to as the Holy Dormition Church (Temple) or the Great Church, is the main cathedral of the monastery complex. At times of the Kyivan Rus ( Ruthenia ), the cathedral also served as a necropolis for the Kyivan princes.
Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II. The Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II is a complex which commemorates the Eastern Front of World War II. [13] Its collection consists of about 300,000 pieces, and it has been visited by over 24 million visitors. [13] National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943"
The museum became a major cultural institution in Kyiv. On August 11, 2003, the Cabinet of Ukraine passed decree No. 506, which made the palace the new location for the Supreme Court of Ukraine. [2] The museum soon closed by March 2004, and re-opened later that year at the Ukrainian House. [1] By June 2012, the museum was again closed for ...
The original temple was built in the 12th century and no drawings or visual depictions of it remain. The second temple was built at the time of the Cossack Hetmanate and was disassembled by the Russian authorities in the 19th century. It was replaced with the current temple, often referred to as the Refectory Church of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
In particular, 18,000 items were transferred to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. The Kyiv Fortress (historical and architectural complex where the museum was created) firstly was the branch of the historical museum. About 600 exhibits were donated to the Kyiv History Museum.
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, is an architectural monument of Kievan Rus'.The former cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kyiv Cave Monastery complex.
In 2006, a temporary Orthodox tabernacle was illegally erected near the Tithe Church on the territory belonging to the National Museum of History of Ukraine without the appropriate documents. In 2007, the tent church was illegally replaced with a wooden one; in 2012, it was also illegally built in stone. [5] [6]