Pyrohoshcha Dormition of the Mother of God Church
Twelfth-century brick church of the Kyivan princes, demolished by the Soviets and rebuilt in 1998.
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This guide to the Pyrohoshcha Church on Kontraktova Square in Kyiv starts with a prince on horseback in the twelfth century, and a line from the medieval epic that sent him riding toward this spot. It moves through the Byzantine icon that gave the church its name, the brick walls Prince Mstyslav raised in Podil, and the merchants and craftsmen who made it their own. Best heard facing the entrance from the square.
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