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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.
View onto the Kyiv Podil with Sts Peter and Paul Church. The Old Cathedral of St. Sophia (Polish: Katedra św. Zofii w Kijowie, Latin: Sancta Sophia, Capitulo et Canonicis Cathedralis Ecclesiae Kioviencis) also called Catholic Cathedral of St. Sophia is the name given to a Catholic cathedral that was in the city of Kyiv, the capital of the European country of Ukraine.
The preserve was established in place of the cathedral of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church that was dissolved in 1930. The museum's responsibilities were gradually expanded to other historic locations of Kyiv. In 1994, the reserve was accorded its current status as being National. Both St. Andrew and St. Cyril churches are acting.
The first site listed was "Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra", in 1990. The most recent site listed was the Historic Centre of Odesa , in 2023. The site was immediately listed as endangered because of the 2022 Russian invasion , the sites of Kyiv and Lviv were added to the endangered list as well ...
The list is split by regions including cities with special status. There are two types of lists of immovable monuments: national significance and of local significance. The items are also classified as monuments of archaeology, history, monumental art, architecture, urban planning, garden-park art, landscape, science and technology, or any ...
Olga of Kiev, reburied from Vyshhorod; Yaropolk I of Kiev; Oleg of the Drevlyans; The remnants of Anna of Byzantium and Vladimir the Great were first reburied in the Church of the Saviour and later in the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv Caves Monastery. Some remnants were reburied in the Saint Sophia's Cathedral.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr (Latin: Dioecesis Kioviensis-Zytomeriensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Ukraine in ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins. Its cathedral episcopal see is the St. Sophia's Cathedral, Zhytomyr.
In 1930, the bell tower together with St. Sophia Cathedral was closed for worship and became a part of the All-Ukrainian Museum Complex, which was established in 1926 in the area of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Probably, all the bells were removed from the bell tower at that time, except for Mazepa.