St. Nicholas Military Cathedral

Coordinates: 50°26′29″N 30°33′07″E / 50.44139°N 30.55194°E / 50.44139; 30.55194

The Military Cathedral of St. Nicholas ca. 1900.

St. Nicholas Military Cathedral (Ukrainian: Військовий Микільський собор), popularly known as The Great Nicholas (Ukrainian: Великий Микола), was one of the military cathedrals of the former Russian Empire, overlooking the Dnieper River in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

This pentacupolar Ukrainian Baroque building was designed by Osip Startsev at the bidding of Hetman Ivan Mazepa to serve as the main church of St. Nicholas's Poustinia traditionally associated with Askold's Grave.^[1] The church was consecrated in 1696. It was famed for its dazzling gilded icon screen commissioned by Mazepa.^[1] A free-standing Rastrelliesque bell tower was completed in the mid-18th century.

The Russian Imperial Army became the church's patron in 1831. A set of cannons near the building proclaimed its military associations. In 1934, the Soviets blew up the cathedral, replacing it with a Pioneers Palace.^[1]

Struggle for a reconstruction of a temple is growing. The president of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko supported idea of restoration of a temple.^[2]

Now Divine services are carried out at open-air near to a place where there was a temple earlier. A website of parishioners - http://www.mykilsky.org.ua/

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Churches and monasteries of Kiev

Cathedrals	Saint Sophia Cathedral St. Volodymyr's Cathedral Resurrection Cathedral St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral St. Nicholas Military Cathedral¹ St. Panteleimon's Cathedral

Churches	St. Andrew's Church St. Cyril's Church Church of the Saviour at Berestove Church of the Tithes Church of the Theotokos Troieshchyna Church Askold Grave Church

Monasteries	Lavra of the Caves (Great Church Gate Church Refectory Church) St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery Vydubychi Monastery Brotherhood Monastery Trinity Monastery Theophania Convent Intercession Convent Florivsky Convent Kitaev Poustinia

¹Demolished structures are in italics

Lists of damaged, destroyed or looted heritage

Man-made

Buddhas of Bamiyan Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL Looting and burning of the Summer Palaces List of the destroyed landmarks in Spain Destruction of most cultural heritages in Okinawa Shuri Castle Bolshevik Revolution Church of the Tithes St. Nicholas Military Cathedral Brotherhood Monastery St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery Transfiguration Cathedral Destruction of most cultural heritages in North Korea Sogwang and Singye Temple Hungarian Revolution Stalin Monument, Budapest Afghanistan Revolutions of 1989 Berlin Wall Dzerzynski monument, Warsaw Hoxha monument, Tirana Euromaidan Vladimir Lenin monument, Kiev Iraq War archaeological looting Firdos Square statue destruction Croatian War Kosovo War Syrian Civil War ISIL

World War II	Art theft and looting Libraries Planned destruction of Warsaw Nazi plunder

Natural

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

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