St. Panteleimon's Cathedral Explained

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St. Panteleimon's Cathedral
Fullname:St. Panteleimon's Women's Monastery
Native Name:Пантелеймонівський собор
Native Name Lang:uk
Country:Ukraine
Location:Feofaniia, Holosiivskyi District, Kyiv
Denomination:Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
Website:https://feofania.church.ua
Architect:Yevhen Yermakov
Style:Russian Revival
Years Built:1905–1914
Diocese:Kyiv (MP)

The Cathedral of St. Panteleimon (St. Pantaleon) is a large Eastern Orthodox cathedral in the Kyivan neighbourhood of Feofaniia. It shares similarities with the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn and is considered a high point in Russian Revival ecclesiastical architecture.

It was built to a Russian Revival design by between 1905 and 1912.[1] The building is pentacupolar, with the massive black central dome and the four tent-like domes on the corners, as well as low galleries which run continuously around the building. The outer walls are covered with a mazy web of tracery.

The cathedral was intended to serve as the main church of the Kyivan Monastery of St. Panteleimon, which originated as a branch, or skete, of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery.[2] It was closed for worship and thoroughly looted in the 1920s and damaged in World War II.[1]

The hollow shell of the church was returned to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 1990s and has been restored as the main church of a nunnery. The other church building of the convent conforms to the cathedral in style.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.feofaniya.in.ua/?pid=784 Website of St. Panteleimon's Convent
  2. http://www.feofaniya.in.ua/?pid=787 Website of St. Panteleimon's Convent