St. George's Skete of Svyatogirsk Holy Dormition Lavra of Donetsk Diocese of Ukrainian Orthodox Church was built in 1862. It is a wooden structure. In 1867 the building housed a public school for forty boys, and was eventually turned into a parochial school. A hermitage church dedicated to the martyr St George the Victory-Bearer was recently built on the site, based on the original model of the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God on the Nerl.
The Holy Trinity Church is the oldest in Irpen. It stands on a high hill in the center of the city. The foundation and construction of the church began in 1909 and continued for six years. In 1915, services began to be held regularly.
Color photograph of Vvedensk Refectory Church, built 1677-1679, Chernihiv. The pillarless Vvedensk church is one of the oldest in the group of Chernihiv monuments of the 17th century.
Illina Church, the oldest of the Trinity-Illina Monastery, Chernihiv. The modern appearance of the Illina Church is the result of reconstructions in the 10th , 2nd, and 18th centuries.
Five bells suspended from a beam in the church of St. Simeon Stylites, located in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka. The stone church was constructed between 1908-1909, spent part of its life as a village club, then passed back into the hands of the parish in 1992 and was restored beginning in 2002 after a fire.
A man on scaffolding, painting the interior of the Church of the Transfiguration, Kharkiv, holding paint in one hand, and a thin paintbrush in the other.