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St. Panteleimon's Convent
The Cathedral of St. Panteleimon (Saint Pantaleon, St. Pantaleon) is a large Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox cathedral in the Kyivan neighbourhood of Feofaniia. It shares similarities with the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn and is considered a high point in Russian Revival architecture, Russian Revival church architecture, ecclesiastical architecture. It was built to a Russian Revival design by between 1905 and 1912.Website of St. Panteleimon's Convent
The building is pentacupolar, with the massive black central dome and the four Tented roof, 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 katholikon, main church of the Kyivan Monastery of St. Panteleimon, ...
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