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.