Church of Our Lady Pirogoschi

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Pirogoscha - Orthodox stone church, built in Podil on the Kontraktova ploscha in the years 1132-1136, by prince Mstislav Yaropolk, son of Prince Vladimir Monomakh.
In 1240 the church was almost destroyed during the invasion of the Mongols. By 1474 rebuilt and festively consecrated, but already in 1482 again was badly damaged during the raid of the Crimean Khan Mengli Giray to Kyiv. In the years 1613-1614 after a fire in 1611 the church was rebuilt by the Italian architect Sebastiano Brachi.
In 1935, destroyed by the Bolsheviks (Communists).
In the 1976-1979 years were carried out archaeological excavations the foundations of the temple, which reached a depth of 4 m. The foundation was made of construction material, taken from earlier buildings. Then the idea of ​​restoring the building for the museum, was appeared, but wasn't realized.
The church was rebuilt in 1997-1998 in the forms of ancient (Byzantine) Architecture. Actually it's only one church with a thousand years history, built in original style of Kievan Rus times. So it's only one place where we can see the style churces were buidl in Kyiv millenium ago.