Kiev Ukraine Vydubychi Monastery
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The ensemble of Kiev Vydubychi Monastery was formed in the eleventh century. The name arises from a legend telling how the pagan idols were thrown into the Dnepr by the command of Prince Vladimir Sviatoslavich. The pagan Kievans walked, mourning, along the bank, and prayed: "Vydybai bozhe" ("Swim up again, god").
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Here a monastery was founded in the late tenth century under the first metropolitan of Rus, and the first, probably wooden church was built. At the end of the eleventh century the stone Church of St Michael was erected in this place.
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The Vydubychi monastery ensemble of Kiev city took its present shape in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries when St George's Cathedral (1696-1701), the refectory (1696-1701), the bell-tower (1735), and a block of cells were built.
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Kiev Ukraine Vydubychi Monastery location - Ukraine, Kiev city, Vydubychi Street, 40.
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