Church, Kiev Pechersk Lavra (HDR)

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Church, Kiev Pechersk Lavra (HDR)




Image by Roads Less Traveled Photography

 
Three image panorama, then three exposure HDR.

While I've shown the larger buildings in the Lavra complex, there are many smaller buildings, including around 15 churches. This is one of the smaller churches on the Lavra property.

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Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Ukrainian: КиÑ"во-Печерська лавра, Kyievo-Pechers’ka lavra), also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery in Kiev, Ukraine. Since its foundation as the cave monastery in 1015 the Lavra has been a preeminent center of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint-Sophia Cathedral, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was named one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine on August 21, 2007, based on voting by experts and the internet community.

Currently, the jurisdiction over the site is divided between the state museum, National Kiev-Pechersk Historic-Cultural Preserve, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as the site of the chief monastery of that Church and the residence of its leader, Metropolitan Volodymyr.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Pechersk_Lavra

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