Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev  Best Kiev Apartment continues to offer for our clients to visit most famous Kiev places during staying at our Kiev apartments. The one of the most famous Kiev Cathedral is Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. You must visit this place.
This place is worth visiting because:
- it is one of the oldest churches in Eastern Europe
-St. Sophia Cathedral has something in common with St. Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople
-it’s mosaics and frescos are almost one thousand years. The mosaic image of Oranta is a unique masterpiece
-here lies the marble tomb of Yaroslav The Wise – Kyiv’s prince, who built St. Sophia Cathedral
-this church is included to UNESCO’s world heritage
- there is a beautiful panorama of Kyiv from it’s 76 m high bell tower
- here prince Yaroslav’s huge library is concealed
- there is a legend – till St. Sophia will stay – till Kyiv will stay
- inscriptions are scratched onto St. Sophia’s walls – ancient residents of Kyiv made them in 11th - 12th centuries. There is an inscription which tells us about prince Yaroslav’s death.
-it was the main church of the ancient Kyiv State.
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