The Pyrohoshcha Dormition of the Mother of God Church () or simply Pyrohoshcha Church ( ) is an

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church in

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in the historical neighbourhood

Podil Podil ( ) or Podol ( ), also known in English as the Lower City,Ivankin, H., Vortman, D. Podil (ПОДІЛ)'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. is a historic neighborhood in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is located on a floodplain terrace ...

. The original church was built in 1130s by the Mstyslav I the Great of Kyiv. It was the main church of Podil, and was a temporary cathedral of Kyiv Metropolitanate in the early 17 century. In 1613 the church was reconstructured in

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, and then in 18th-19th centuries was rebuilt in

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and

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styles. In 1934, the church became the cathedral of Ukrainian Autocephalous Church when its center moved from

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to Kyiv together with the capital of Ukrainian SSR. But it was in that status less than a year, being destroyed in 1935 by the Soviet administration for the reason of "reconstructing the

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". Then, for some time the church was largely forgotten by the time the research on its remains began in 1976. At that time the idea of rebuilding of the church appeared, but the project was completed only in 1997, providing the restoration in the hypothetic ancient Rus style, which was made in 1997-1998. However, the historical originality of the reconstruction is still in discussion. On the

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1998, the rebuilt Pyrohoshcha was

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as a church of the

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. On 11 November 2012

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Filaret consecrated the church religious paintings.

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