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!!!Orthodox Church of the Pyrohoshchi 

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The Orthodox Church of the Pyrohoshchi Madonna in the Podil district of Kyiv was constructed between 1132 and 1136. Demolished by the Soviets in 1935, it was reconstructed in 1998 in its original medieval Byzantine style (i.e., sans the Neoclassical facade that had been added in 1811).