National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve has joined the challenge #MuseumFromHome.

Dear Friends!

While the monuments of the Preserve are temporarily closed for visiting, we invite you to spend these days in informative and educational way. Take a trip to our virtual museum during your coffee or tea break and make your #quarantinediscoveries! Keep exploring outstanding monuments of the World Cultural Heritage!

South facade of the Trinity Gate Church

The architecture of the Trinity Church as a typical Kyivan Rus cross-domed four-pillar temple was simple and severe, with almost no decoration. The south facade has preserved its authentic forms: the ancient partition of walls, two-story windows and niches with the semicircular arches. Nowadays the windows of the middle row are slightly enlarged and those of the upper row are built in. The main architectural and construction characteristics of the Trinity Gate Church were explored during the archeological studies of the monument conducted by Lavra unit of the expedition “Velykyi Kyiv” of the Institute of Archeology headed by Volodymyr Bogusevych in 1951. At the same time, its foundations were uncovered and fixed. The southern and northern parts of the Kyivan Rus volume of the church building were partially studied in 2011 during the excavations headed by Sergiy Balakin. The walls of the church were built in mixed technique (opus mixtum). It is an ancient construction technique providing for the laying of plinth (brick in Kyivan Rus period) by the method of “hidden row”. The sizes of the plinth are 37×27×4 and 41-44×28×4 cm. The foundations of the south wall made of large rabble stone on the cement mortar are laid at a depth of 2.61 m from the present level of the surface (1.36 m from the surface of the 12th century).

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