Theodore Church, Kiev

In the 70 years of the 19th century Kiev was built the church of St. Theodore, who donated money for the civil servant Fyodor Ivanov. Perhaps this was the reason for assigning the temple named Theodore the Sanctified.

Over the 20 years to finish building the church additional chapels and underground rooms. One of the underground sanctuary was a copy of the cave temple of St. Elizabeth in Inkerman . The second sanctuary in great detail replicated the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The church was built in the style of Russian classicism with hipped bell tower and dome in the form of bulbs. The interior consisted of frescoes and old Russian painting. The walls of the temple were kept numerous relics brought from Jerusalem, and transmitted by the monks of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra a copy of the Resurrection of Christ, the original of which is kept in Israel.

The church worked parochial school, day shelter and ladies` welfare for the needy. Near the church of St. Theodore the Sanctified was a cemetery, and a little to the side there is a chapel built in 1891, and the family crypt Pishenkovyh. In 1910, there was a parish church brotherhood. After 14 years, the Soviet authorities ordered the congregation to vacate the premises of the temple. In the 30 years of the last century, the chapel was demolished, later establishing in its place a monument to Ivan Kotlyarevsky. Then they shut down and the temple, and 5 years later the church was demolished in general. Clean and cemetery.

In 2007 services on the territory of the church resumed. It was held a series of excavations and discovered that the foundation of the church and the underground part is well preserved. Soon, Metropolitan Volodymyr blessed rebuilding of the temple in honor of Theodore the Sanctified.