Church of the Tithes
Church · Burial place
church in Kyiv
Location: 50.4578, 30.5175
What this place is
- Church — the Church of the Tithes, Kyiv — "church in Kyiv", the first stone church of Rus
Who is recorded here
- Olga of Kiev burial · AD 969
- Vladimir the Great burial · AD 1015
In art
About the place
The Church of the Tithes or Church of the Dormition of the Virgin was the first stone church in Kyiv. Originally it was built by the order of Grand Prince Vladimir (Volodymyr) the Great between 989 and 996 by Byzantine and local workers at the site of death of martyrs Theodor the Varangian and his son Johann.
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