Attractions of Cherkasy region

Saint Michael's Cathedral in Cherkasy is the largest Orthodox church in Ukraine (it reaches 72 m in height).

Built in 8 years in the Byzantine style. Can accommodate up to 12 thousand people at a time. It is planned to build a bell tower over 100 meters high.

On October 17, 2024, Saint Michael's Cathedral in Cherkasy, which had long been under the control of the Moscow Patriarchate, was transferred to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and became a garrison church. The cathedral will house a center for national-patriotic education, a Sunday school, and chaplain training.

Saint Michael's Church in Horodyshche was built in the Neo-Gothic style in 1844 at the expense of Count Mykhaylo Vorontsov, according to the project of the Italian architect Dzhordzho Torrichelli.

In Soviet times, it was closed, the bell tower was dismantled, and a sports hall was built in the church itself. Paintings of the 19th century were whitewashed.

In the 1990s, the church was restored, the bell tower was rebuilt, and the painting "The Last Judgment" (area 102 square meters) was washed and restored.

The architecture of Staint Michael's Church is very unusual for an Orthodox church. Neo-Gothic architecture is reminiscent of Catholic churches, and the tines on the belfry, orange walls and green roof make the temple look like a fairy-tale castle.

The Church of Saint Michael is located in the village of Yurchykha near Kamyanka.

The brick church was built in 1897. The in the form of a cross in the plan. The height of the dome with the cross is 30 meters.

There is a grave of an unknown person on the territory of Sint Michael's Church (the inscription is illegible). Divine services are held on Sunday. The rest of the time the church is closed.

Saint Michael's Orthodox Church was founded in Lysianka in 1723 and rebuilt in the second half of the 19th century.

In Soviet times, the large stone temple was closed, and in the late 1970s it was completely destroyed. In 2000, a new five-domed Saint Michael's Church was built in its place. Next to the church stands the priest's house, decorated with a huge painting.

Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Uman is an architectural monument of the 19th century. It is located in the center of the city, on the territory of the former fortress.

It was built by the architect Tomash Etlinher with donations from the townspeople in honor of the victory over Napoleon on the site where a Catholic church once stood. In 1843, it acquired the status of a cathedral. In 1911, the interior of the Saint Nicholas cathedral was remodeled and decorated with ornaments and icons similar to the Kyiv Saint Volodymyr's Cathedral (artist Vereshchak).

During the Soviet rule in the early 1930s, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral was closed, first it was transferred to the balance of the Megommeter plant for a club, then in 1977 it was transferred to the local lore museum to create a museum of atheism. In the process of restoration work, all wall paintings were lost.

In 1989, the church was handed over to the UOC church community of the Moscow Patriarchate and consecrated in honor of Saint Nicholas.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Orlovets was built in 1876-1886 on the site of an even older church, founded in 1779 by the Zaporizhzhian Cossack Kyrylo Polov. Consecrated in 1888.

An icon of Saint Nicholas hangs above the entrance to the church. One of the doors to the temple as a whole is also an icon.

Saint Nicholas Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Saint Nicholas Church in Skorykivka was built at the expense of the parishioners by craftsmen from the village of Veremiyivka , Cherkasy region.

The creative approach to architecture is visible in the wood carvings that decorate the roof, eaves and other details.

During 1934-1941, the church of Saint Nicholas was closed by the Soviet authorities. Services were resumed from 1941 to 1962. Until 1990, the building was used as a warehouse.

Saint Nicholas Church has been open to parishioners since 1991. Restored in 1994.

The ancient Lebedyn Monastery of Saint Nicholas is located east of the village of Lebedyn in a picturesque and secluded location surrounded by forests and lakes.

It was founded by the nuns Mahdalyna and Tryfiliyeya in 1779 on the lands of Prince Frantsysk Ksaveriy Lubomyrskyi. The healing spring discovered by Saint Opanas has been preserved. The people call the Spring Mahdalynskyi" in memory of the first abbess of the monastery.

Initially, all the monastery buildings were wooden, but in the 19th century most of them were replaced by stone ones. Among them are the Saint Nicholas Church (1800) and the Barbarian Church (1839), which was destroyed during the Soviet era, but was rebuilt again in the 1990s. In 1837, a new 34-meter-high brick bell tower was built in place of the wooden one, through which the main entrance to the monastery was arranged (only a third of it has survived).

In 1929, the monastery was closed, the "Red October" commune was established on its territory, then a boarding school for homeless children, and later for children of the repressed. During the Second World War, the German authorities revived the monastery, but in 1961 it was closed again. Valuables were taken away, the bells were handed over to the museum of the city of Cherkasy. A tuberculosis hospital was placed on the territory, and then a boarding school.

The revival of the Lebedyn Monastery began in 1992. Today, two churches, a chapel, cell buildings are located within the walls of the monastery, and a little further away - a complex of farm buildings. All buildings, except the northern wall, are in excellent condition. The monastery belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Tubiltsy was founded in 1843 by Prince Mykhaylo Vorontsov.

Initially, the church was planned to be consecrated as Intercession, because that was the name of the previous church in Tubiltsy, but due to the fact that the new one was built from the materials of the dismantled church of Saint Nicholas in Moshny, the built church was also dedicated to this saint.

At the beginning of the 20th century, on the initiative of Countess Kateryna Balashova, the Saint Nicolas Church was reconstructed.

During the Soviet period, the baths were removed from it and turned into a warehouse.

Now it is a working temple again. The dome and bell tower have not yet been restored, but even without them the church looks very colorful. The high stone foundation and huge windows are especially impressive.

The Church of Saint Oleksandra in Yablunivka in the Lysyanka region was built in 1838 on the site of the old church of Joseph the Betrothed, founded in 1814.

The church-like stone Orthodox church in the name of Tsarina Oleksandra was built by Countess Sofiya Potoska with her mother's Oleksandra Branitska money. The architecture of the temple is very interesting and unusual for the Dnipro region. A characteristic feature is the two bell towers above the entrance.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a church and parish school operated at the church. In the 1930s, the church was closed, the premises were used as a warehouse.

In the 1990s, the church of Saint Oleksandra was restored and returned to believers.

The rotunda church of Saint Oleksandra in Lebedivka was built in 1843 by retired captain Porfyriy Krasovsky, who owned the village in the middle of the 19th century. Before that, there was an old wooden temple here.

The current stone church in the style of classicism has an unconventional for Orthodoxy round shape of a rotunda, which is accented on three sides by porticoes of the Tuscan order with paired columns.

The interior is decorated with stucco and monumental painting. Choirs are arranged in the western part of the rotunda, to which the balcony on the facade corresponds.

There is an assumption that the temple was Masonic, which explains its unconventional architecture.

The wooden church of Saint Paraskeva in Antypivka was built in 1890 on the initiative of the abbot Ioann Drozdovskyi on the site of the old burned down church.

The current church is distinguished by unusual carved cornices and uncharacteristic side octagonal exits, which look like verandas, covered by small domes with crosses.

An ancient stone Cossack cross stands out among several grave crosses on the church perimeter.

The wooden church of Saint Paraskeva was built in the village of Sobkivka in 1870 and has a rare feature - three entrances on one side, and all entrances have separate porches.

The church is almost rectangular in plan, although there was once a baptismal font. It is not known when the side additions were made, but most likely during Soviet times.

The wooden church of Saints Peter and Paul was built in the village of Chorniavka by order of the Chamber of State Property in 1860, and completed in 1863.

The church was closed for a long time. It was revived in the 1990s, at the same time three small baths, removed during the Soviet era, were restored on the church. The improvised belfry is a piece of pipe hanging on a crane beam.

On July 26, 2015, the Peter and Paul Church in Chorniavka burned down.

The Church of Saint Righteous Petro the Long-suffering (Kalnyshevsky) was built on the Buda farm in 2012 at the initiative of the public organization "Free Cossacks of Kholodny Yar" at the expense of entrepreneurs Olesya and Oleh Ostrovsky, who own the nearby ethnographic complex "Dykiy khutir".

The brick temple is made in the form of traditional Cossack churches and is decorated with wood. This is the first church in Ukraine, dedicated to the last basket chieftain of Zaporizhzhian Sich, Petro Kalnyshevsky, who was canonized in 2008.

Nearby, in 2014, the first monument to the heroes of the "Heavenly Hundred" was erected in Ukraine.