`nichOlas church in kiev `

The St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral is the second Roman Catholic cathedral built in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It was constructed from 1899–1909 and was built in a Gothic type construction, by Kiev architects Vladimir Gorodetsky and E. Salya. Historically, it belonged to the Latin Rite Catholic community.In 1933 the church was looted and closed, and in 1943 was badly damaged by shelling,