Church of St. Xenia of Petersburg

In Svyatoshinsky district of Kyiv is a cemetery, where lie Martyr Seraphim and her followers, just about 2,000 nuns Pokrovsky and Florovsky convents, the monks of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra , as well as numerous monasteries of Kiev.

Since the early 2000s, at the graves of the most revered martyrs nuns held memorial services and prayers memory. In 2008 it was decided to build a house for the name Xenia of St. Petersburg, it was founded near the main entrance to the cemetery. Construction did not last long and lasted only six months. July 13 the church was consecrated, and 3 days later held the first solemn liturgy. Now the temple is small, it is just a small chapel, but in the future it is planned to create a large temple. Through the efforts of the parish was established here cross in memory of the soldiers who fell in the fight against the Nazis and liberated Kiev. In 2009 there was the first church the miraculous icon of Spyridon, gave it to Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev.