What Iron Church, destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the early 1930s, looked like in Kyiv. Photos

In the early 1870s, a unique church was built in Kyiv, popularly known as the Iron Church. It was built of cast iron and was located near the modern building of the capital's circus.

This was reported on one of Telegram channels (kyivkk). Although the church was the smallest in the city, it had a large parish of about 7,000 believers.

"The Iron Church on Halytska Square was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1931. The photo of the Church of St. John Chrysostom (Iron Church) on Halytska Square was taken in the 1890s," the statement reads.

As noted, in the seventeenth century, the wooden church of St. John Chrysostom was located in the Old Town at the intersection of Volodymyrska and Velyka Zhytomyrska streets. According to Kyiv's development plans of the mid-nineteenth century, the church was to be moved to another area.

In 1931, the People's Commissariat for Education decided that the church had no historical value, and in 1934, it was demolished. The official reason for the demolition was "reconstruction of tram tracks." Today, the site of the former church is a park to the right of the Kyiv Circus, and only the nearby street called Zolotoustivska remind of the church.

The Church of St. John Chrysostom is an Orthodox church in Kyiv on Halytska Square (also known as Yevbaz, the Jewish market), built in 1871 and destroyed in the 1930s. It is the first church in the Russian Empire built of cast iron.

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