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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]
From 1937 to 2020, the village was a part of the Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion, until its dissolution. Since then, Sofiivska Borshchahivka is a part of Bucha Raion. In August 2010, the Kyiv Ukraine Temple, the first Ukrainian temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was opened in Sofiivska Borshchahivka. [4] Kyiv Ukraine Temple
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.
The Kyiv Ukraine Temple was to accommodate members from Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. [13] On May 30, 2004, the Kyiv Ukraine Stake, Ukraine's first, was organized. [14] During the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, all missionaries of the Ukraine Donetsk Mission were removed from the ...
Kyiv, labelled Kiou, in a detail of Ortelius's 1562 map "Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio" (Description of Rus, Muscovy, and Tartary). Kyiv became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after the Battle at Blue Waters in 1362, when Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, beat a Golden Horde army. During the period between 1362 and 1471 ...
Athanasius Kalnofoisky 's 1638 map of Kyiv shows the monastery at the top. In 1620, St. Michael's hegumen Job Boretsky made the monastery's cathedral the seat of the re-established Metropolis of Kyiv, Galicia and all Rus'. [12] The monastery's bell tower and refectory were constructed during his hegumenship. [16]
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.
Kyiv (also Kiev) [a] is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2,952,301, [2] making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. [11] Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center in Eastern Europe.