Saint Sophia Cathedral

What this place is

• School or library — the books Yaroslav gathered — he set scribes to translate out of Greek and laid the volumes up in the church he had built, the earliest library recorded in Rus

Who is recorded here

• Yaroslav the Wise burial · AD 1054

In art

• Interior of the Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev. — Michail Makarowitsch Saschin (1854)
• Saint Sophia’s Orthodox Cathedral in Kyiv — Jan Stanisławski (1903)
• File:80-391-0151 Kyiv St.Sophia's Cathedral RB 18 2 (cropped).jpg — Rbrechko

About the place

The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, is an architectural monument of Kyivan Rus'. The former cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kyiv Cave Monastery complex.

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