St. Nikolai on the water
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 53 ″ N , 30 ° 31 ′ 34 ″ E
The Church of Nikolai the Miraculous (on the water), ( Ukrainian Церква Миколи Чудотворця (на воді) Tserkva Mykoly Chudotworzja (na vodi) ) is the only church building in Europe that stands in the middle of the water, an architectural monument and a sight in the Ukrainian capital Kiev .
The 23-meter-high Chapel of the Cross, built between December 19, 2003 and July 7, 2004 in the Ukrainian neo-baroque style, belongs to the Kiev Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate .
The chapel is located on a concrete foundation in the middle of the Dnieper on the Podil pier near Postplatz .
Web links
Commons : St. Nikolai on the Water - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Official Website (Russian)
- Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker on the Water (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church of St. Nicholas "on the water" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 3, 2014 (Russian).
- ^ Günter Schäfer: Kiev, tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr. 3rd edition 2011; Trescher Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , p. 99.
- ↑ Church on the Water , accessed March 3, 2014 (Ukrainian).