St. Nicholas Church on Askold's grave

50.444027777778 30.551333333333Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 39 ″ N , 30 ° 33 ′ 5 ″ E

Askold's grave; Painting by Taras Shevchenko , 1846

The St. Nicholas Church on Askold grave ( Ukrainian Церква Святого Миколая на Аскольдовій могил Tserkva Swjatoho Mykolaja na Askoldowij mohyl ) is a Ukrainian-Greek-Catholic church building in the Park "Askold's grave" ( Аскольдова могила ) in the Ukrainian capital Kiev .

The architect of the pavilion church , built from 1809 to September 1, 1810 in the classical style and costing 8,000 rubles, was the Russian Andrei I. Melenski , who also built the Church of the Nativity of Christ in Kiev. According to legend, the church building of the Kiev Archeparchies , following on from some of the previous churches, is said to stand on the grave of the Varangian Prince Askold .

Web links

Commons : St. Nicholas Church on Askold's Grave - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Askold's grave description on kiev.glo.ua (Russian)
Askold's grave description on gorodkiev.com (Russian)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Günther Schäfer: Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr . In: City guide (= Trescher series of trips ). 3. Edition. Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 217 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).

[Kiev-1] A ^b Günther Schäfer: Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr . In: City guide (= Trescher series of trips ). 3. Edition. Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 217 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).