Михайлівський Золотоверхий монастир

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(Ukr Mihaylіvsky Golden-Monastir.) - one of the oldest monasteries in Kiev. Includes destroyed in 1930 and re-built in the mid-1990s, the cathedral church in honor of the Archangel Michael in the Ukrainian Baroque style, as well as the refectory with the Church of St. John the Divine (1713) and the bell tower (1716-1719 years) .Predpolagaetsya that St. Michael's Cathedral was the first temple with a gilded top, where Russia went on this kind of a tradition.