• Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings

  Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings

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  <img src=’http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/sites/site_527.jpg‘ target=’blank‘ align=’left‘ style=’padding:5px‘>Designed to rival Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Kiev&apos;s Saint-Sophia Cathedral symbolizes the &apos;new Constantinople&apos;, capital of the Christian principality of Kiev, which was created in the 11th century in a region evangelized after the baptism of St Vladimir in 988. The spiritual and intellectual influence of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra contributed to the spread of Orthodox thought and the Orthodox faith in the Russian world from the 17th to the 19th century.

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