St Andrew's Church

The Saint Andrew's Church is a major Baroque church located in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The church was constructed in 1747–1754, to a design by the Imperial Russian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a cathedral.
The Saint Andrew's Church overlooks the historic Podil neighborhood, situated on a steep hill to which the church gave its current name—Andriyivska Hill. It is currently one of four architectural landmarks of Ukraine, which were put down on the List of Mankind Treasures of Five Continents by the world society.
Saint Andrew's Church was built in honor of Saint Andrew who is recognized as the "Apostle of Rus".According to the chronicle The Tale of Bygone Years, Saint Andrew came to the Dnieper (Dnipro) River's slopes in the 1st century AD and erected a cross on the current location of the church. He prophesied that the sparsely inhabited area would become a great Christian city. As he predicted, the site arose to become the city of Kiev, a center of the Eastern Orthodox faith.