St. Andrew's Church
Hilltop Baroque church by Rastrelli with green-and-gold domes, famed for having no bells.
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This guide to St. Andrew's Church in Kyiv follows a question locals have answered for generations: why does this hilltop church stay silent while others ring? It weaves together Andrew the Apostle, a vanished sea, and the eighteenth-century builders sent by Empress Elizabeth of Russia to raise a palace church on difficult ground. Best heard on the terrace, with the Podil rooftops below you.
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