Saints Boris and Gleb Church

Modern Boris and Gleb Church Toompea is a restored ancient temple, built for the Orthodox parishioners in the middle of the 11th century. The sketches and drawings of the building were made ​​public in 1951 in the city archives. Then historians have begun excavating the surviving episodes of the stone walls, which were located in the territory Mezhyhirya Monastery.

Start of unusual stories Borisoglebskaya church falls on 1020. Before that, there was a wooden church here, next to which were buried brothers Boris and Gleb, whose deeds during his lifetime was considered miraculous. In 1020 the church suffered a huge fire. Later in its place was built the first stone church in honor of the two saints and their relics moved inside the temple. According to the chronicles, the church had to 5 floors - it was a rarity for the early 11th century. Nevertheless, the Tartar troops inflicted irreparable damage to the building. In the 16th century the owner of the land, the Polish King Sigismund II, brought the holy relics of the Upper Town, which can not be found today.

For incomplete millennium, until the second half of the 19th century, the church was rebuilt Borisoglebovskay more than 5 times. The cause of the fires were, the war in these parts, as well as World War II, during which the Germans used the temple as a lookout tower. Today is a historic monument in force, reduced by episodes of works of the 1860s. In the courtyard of the temple, guests can get acquainted with the surviving remains of a stone wall of the 11th century, as well as a look at the rough outline of the structure, which was destroyed in the early 12th century, the Mongols.