Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance

14 March 2018, 07:48 | Events & people | |
Keepers of Sloboda Menorah. About the past and the present of Kharkiv Karaites
12 March 2018, 10:05 | Reports |
Lviv to become a center of parish life in Europe
Lviv will host the 30th Colloquium of European Parishes (CEP), which brings together the clergymen and lay people who would like to revitalize their parish life.
12 December 2017, 10:05 | Reports | |
MUSLIMS OF UKRAINE SIGN SOCIAL CONCEPT
The leaders of Muslim community and religious organizations signed a joint document on December 11, 2017 - The Social Concept of Muslims in Ukraine. At a solemn meeting, representatives of Islamic organizations spoke about the history of this document.
25 July 2017, 17:19 | Reports | |
“Faith and Light” celebrates 25th anniversary of special friendship
Members of the Faith and Light movement try not only to serve the poor, do something for them, but to stay beside them, to become friends for them.
5 May 2017, 14:05 | Journalistic investigations |
Historical memory or legal rights: Baptists in Volyn struggle for the future of an ancient church
The ruins of the old church in the district center of Rozhische in Volyn have become the subject of controversy between the Protestants and the Orthodox. The temple was built in the nineteenth century by the Baptists, “the Soviets” expropriated and placed manufacturing plants in the church.

3 May 2018, 11:32 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Autocephaly in a Nutshell
… the Moscow Patriarchate is busy both in Ukraine and the outside world agitating against such a grant of autocephaly to the UOC-KP and the UAOC, which it regards as schismatic. But its ability to influence world Orthodoxy is limited…
19 March 2018, 14:52 | Comments
The world is thirsty for peace
Oksana Bashuk Hepburn, former director with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and president of a consulting firm dealing with international affairs

7 July 2016, 13:11 | Religious studies |
Ukrainain Orthodoxy on the eve of Pan-Orthodox Council. Part III
The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.
5 July 2016, 14:22 | Religious studies |
Ukrainian Orthodoxy: path to recovery of Church unity. Part II
Ukrainian Orthodoxy and Ukrainian society suffer from division. The majority of Ukrainian Orthodox believers belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. The rest of the Orthodox community of Ukraine has chosen a different path of self-proclaimed autocephaly. However, neither the first nor the second path is optimal for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine to date.

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11 April 2018, 16:30 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Armenian activists willing to restore ancient temple in Crimea through their own effort
NGO “Local Armenian National-Cultural Autonomy of Municipal Education in Bielogorsk District” initiates a project for the revival of St Elias Church of the X-XIV centuries, the ruins of which rest in Bielogorsk district of the annexed Crimea, near Bagate village, reports Religion in Ukraine citing Crimea.mk.ru
30 November 2017, 10:20 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Rivne Oblast councilors suspect that the synagogue is to be sold
At a meeting of the communal commission of the Rivne Oblast Council, which was held on November 29, the councillors decided to visit Dubno to see with their own eyes the state of the local synagogue.
24 July 2017, 15:49 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Nearly 1.2 mln UAH allocated to reconstruct the convent of Armenian Benedictines in Lviv
The stone restoration is carried out by Ukrainian and German specialists within the project "Municipal development and renovation of the ancient part of Lviv" (GIZ). The city budget allocated for restoration about 1.2 million UAH.
21 July 2017, 10:20 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Ancient Lutheran church being restored in Odesa region
In Dolynivka village (Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky district) the restoration of an ancient church is underway. According to IzbirKom, at the expense of the local budget, they are currently installing a fence, which will protect the building from the destruction and intrusion of offender.
28 June 2017, 10:27 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance
One of the largest Roman Catholic churches in Podillya ruined by communist regime to be restored in Vinnytsia region
Ancient Roman Catholic hurch of Archangel Michael in a small town of Tyvriv, which is located in Vinnytsia, is returned to life. With the restoration of the church, where the Soviet government arranged a plant and set up a laundering facility at the most sacred place of the temple, a cultural Christian center of the all-Ukrainian level should appear, UNIAN-Religion reported referring to Urban, a magazine of Vinnytsia.
18 May 2017, 10:44 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance
Poles will restore Lviv Cathedral
In particular, it is referred to the Latin Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary costing about UAH 1.47 million; the Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption (the cost of this year's restoration work will be UAH 913,000).
19 April 2017, 11:09 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance
GOOGLE offers virtual tour to unique wooden churches of Carpathian region
Now all visitors can take a virtual tour of the unique wooden churches in the Carpathian region included in the World Heritage List.
27 March 2017, 10:52 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance
Representatives of UNESCO, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and National Reserve to jointly store Pechersk shrines
The UNESCO delegation arrived in Kyiv for a working visit and met with Metropolitan Pavlo, the governor of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The Ukrainian side was also represented by director of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve Lubomir Mykhailyna, the website of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra reports.
23 March 2017, 11:48 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Chapel over the Lord’s tomb consecrated after restoration
9 February 2017, 13:24 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Lviv city councilors approved the detailed plan of St. George Cathedral
On February 9, at the session of Lviv city council its members approved a detailed plan for renovation of St. George Cathedral with the reconstruction of the Pilgrimage of St. George, landscaping of Metropolitan gardens and proposals to determine the location of the monument to Metropolitan Andrey.
8 February 2017, 15:11 | Religion and culture |
A memorial of the church destroyed more than 80 years ago to be erected in Odessa
18 January 2017, 09:47 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
The synagogue in Sharhorod will be restored
26 October 2016, 10:09 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Memorial signs installed on sites of defunct Jewish cemeteries
In the center of Lutsk, memorial signs have been mounted on the sites of the former Jewish cemeteries.
25 October 2016, 15:37 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
In Vinnytsya region a farmer renovates an old Cossack church
A XVIII century wooden church in the village of Mala Rostivka, Vinnytsia region, is being renovated by a local farmer. According to preliminary calculations about three million UAH are required, Vlasno.info reports.
22 September 2016, 12:02 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Restoration of St. Andrew's Church in Kyiv completed
The restoration of one of the main shrines capital - St. Andrew's Church has been completed. It has lasted one year.
16 August 2016, 12:13 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance | |
A scandal breaks out in Volyn due to the circus in place of Jewish cemetery
In the city of Kovel, Volyn region, an international scandal has broken out - foreign publications write that in the place of mass executions of the Holocaust victims the traveling circuses and menageries have given performances for decades.
9 August 2016, 10:25 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
St Sophia Cathedral endangered again, the developer refuses to comply with the Cabinet of Ministers’ decision
“Investment and Construction Group” Company refuses to demolish two floors of new buildings on Honchar street, 17-23, according to the Cabinet’s decision. It is fraught with the exception of St Sophia of Kyiv from UNESCO World Heritage Site.
22 July 2016, 17:44 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
UNESCO demands Kyiv authorities to remove outdoor advertising from cultural religious objects
Buffer zone includes Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery and National Sanctuary Complex "Sofia of Kyiv".
2 June 2016, 13:05 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Remains of ancient Capuchin monastery in Volyn region collapsed
So far, only walls with semi-circular niches have remained Volodymyr-Volynskyy, which, according to critics, are typical for monastery buildings of the 18th century.
25 May 2016, 12:35 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Schoolchildren in Khmelnytskyy clean up an old Jewish cemetery
In the village of Sataniv, Khmelnytsky region, the local schoolchildren cleaned up a legendary but neglected Jewish cemetery.