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The statue was found on the shores of the town's harbour. Life size, it is adorned with a robe that is changed twice a year, once during the Festival of the Black Christ and during Holy Week. Black Christ is venerated throughout the year, most particularly on October 21, during the Festival of the Black Christ. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Construction of Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv, 30 July 2009. The project of the cathedral of architect Mykola Levchuk won the first prize at the All-Ukrainian review-competition of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine for the best architectural work of the last three years in the nomination "Projects of 2000" [1] [October 27, 2002, bishops of the UGCC.
The Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ or of Our Saviour [1] (Ukrainian: Собор Святого Воскресіння), also called the Ivano-Frankivsk Jesuit Church, is an historic religious building in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine [2] [3] which functions as a Catholic cathedral and seat of the Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchy (Archieparchia Stanislaopolitanus) using the ...
[12] [13] Since February 2014 and mid-April 2015, more than 500 statues of Lenin were dismantled in Ukraine, and nearly 1,700 were still standing. [citation needed] Pulled down: Kyiv: a statue of Lenin stood in front of Bessarabskyi Market. It had been erected in 1946. On June 30, 2009, the nose of the statue and part of the left hand were ...
The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with ...
The first and foremost church in the city of Odesa, the cathedral was founded in 1794 by Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni.Construction lagged several years behind schedule and the newly appointed governor of New Russia, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, employed the Italian architect Francesco Frappoli to complete the edifice.
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.
The controversial Bronze Soldier of Tallinn monument, vandalized in protest of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, 12 April 2022.. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that had commenced in February 2022, a number of Soviet-era monuments and memorials were demolished or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced in former Eastern Bloc Soviet satellite states, as well as several ...