St. Panteleimon's Cathedral

Coordinates: 50°20′41″N 30°29′16.3″E / 50.34472°N 30.487861°E / 50.34472; 30.487861

For other uses of Panteleimon, see Panteley (disambiguation).

The Cathedral of St. Panteleimon in Kiev

The Cathedral of St. Pantaleon or St. Panteleimon is a large Eastern Orthodox cathedral in the Kievan neighbourhood of Theophania. It shares similarities with the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn and is considered a high point in Russian Revival ecclesiastical architecture.

It was built to a Russian Revival design by Yevgeny Yermakov between 1905 and 1912.^[1] The building is pentacupolar, with the massive black central dome and the four tent-like domes on the corners, as well as low galleries which run continuously around the building. The outer walls are covered with a mazy web of tracery.

The cathedral was intended to serve as the main church of the Kievan Monastery of St. Panteleimon, which originated as a branch, or skete, of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery.^[2] It was closed for worship and thoroughly looted in the 1920s and was damaged in World War II.^[1]

The hollow shell of the church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990s and has been restored as the main church of a nunnery. The other church building of the convent conforms to the cathedral in style.

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Churches and monasteries of Kiev

Cathedrals	Saint Sophia Cathedral St. Volodymyr's Cathedral Resurrection Cathedral St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral St. Nicholas Military Cathedral¹ St. Panteleimon's Cathedral

Churches	St. Andrew's Church St. Cyril's Church Church of the Saviour at Berestove Church of the Tithes Church of the Theotokos Troieshchyna Church Church of St.Nicholas

Monasteries	Lavra of the Caves (Great Church Gate Church Refectory Church) St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery Vydubychi Monastery Brotherhood Monastery Trinity Monastery Theophania Convent Intercession Convent Florus Convent Kitaev Poustinia

¹Demolished structures are in italics

Cathedrals of Ukraine

Eastern Orthodoxy	Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta Annunciation Cathedral, Kharkiv Assumption Cathedral, Kharkiv Chersonesus Cathedral Refectory Church (Cave Monastery) St. Catherine's Cathedral, Kherson St. Panteleimon's Cathedral Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev St. Vladimir's Cathedral, Sevastopol St. Volodymyr's Cathedral Transfiguration Cathedral, Dnipropetrovsk Trinity Cathedral, Kiev Transfiguration Cathedral, Odessa Uzhhorod Orthodox Cathedral

Catholic Church	Resurrection Cathedral Latin Cathedral Holy Cross Cathedral St. Nicholas Cathedral St. George's Cathedral

Armenian Apostolic Church	Armenian Cathedral of Lviv

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