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Dormition Cathedral

Pecherskyi District, Ukraine

Dormition Cathedral
Dormition Cathedral. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Dormition Cathedral (Sobor Uspinnia Presviatoi Bohorodytsi) of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, also referred to as the Great Church, is the main cathedral of the monastery complex. In the time of the Kyivan Rus the cathedral also served as the necropolis for the Kyivan princes. The Dormition Cathedral is an important landmark of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra National Reserve.

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