St. Nicholas Cathedral
Neo-Gothic twin-spired church on concrete piles, also home to a national organ and chamber music hall.
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This guide to St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kyiv is about the people who built it between eighteen ninety-nine and nineteen hundred and nine: an engineer, an architect, a contractor, an Italian sculptor and the parishioners who paid for every stage. It starts with the awkward hillside the church stands on and the problem it handed its builders. Best heard at the foot of the front steps, looking back down the street.
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