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| St. Sophia |
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| St. Sophia at Sunset |
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| St. Sophia in the Fog |
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| St. Michael's at Sunrise |
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| View of St. Michael's from the Hyatt Kyiv |
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| St. Michaels at Night |
Monday, December 17, 2012
A Tale of Two Churches
In the center of historic Kyiv, there are two beautiful churches that directly face each other battling for attention in an otherwise nondescript area. St. Sophia, named after the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, is Kyiv's oldest standing church and dates back to 1037. St. Sophia currently serves as a museum, and houses an incredible Virgin Mary mosaic icon made of 15,000 eggs by artist Oksana Mas. St. Michaels is the flashier of the two, having been reconstructed in 2000 after the original from 1108 was destroyed by the Soviets. The reconstructed St. Michaels is a working monastery.
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