Church building was erected in the
years 1899-1909 for the Roman Catholic community of Kiev. Design and
construction of buildings produced under the guidance of the famous Kyiv
architect Vladimir Gorodetsky. Church built in stylized Gothic forms
with the long, gothic towers and steeples, differs slender proportions,
ease and clarity of compositional structure. Difficult conditions for
the construction and architectural solutions prompted the architects to
use innovative at the time engineering technology. More after the
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In 1933 the church was looted and
closed, and in 1943 was badly damaged by shelling, was set on fire, and
only by 1980 it was restored and partially reconstructed. Since 1980,
Nicholas church was to function as a concert hall of the House of Organ
and Chamber Music. Body Kiev House of organ music has been specially
created by masters of firm «Rieger-Kloss» in city Krnov in
Czechoslovakia.
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