The Transfiguration Cathedral, founded in 1030, is one of the most significant and oldest monumental stone buildings in Ukraine. This temple, which is the main building of the Chernihiv-Siver Principality, served for many centuries as a place of religious rites and spiritual renewal for believers.
However, there was a question about turning the Transfiguration Cathedral into a museum, depriving it of the status of an active Orthodox church.
History relentlessly repeats itself:
- In 1926, services in the Chernihiv Cathedral stopped for sixteen years, and the church building was handed over to the food base.
- In 1937, the temple was handed over to the historical museum.
- In 1942, the temple was opened again for religious services.
- In 1961, services were stopped again and the cathedral was again made part of the museum.
- At the end of the 1980s, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church restored divine services in the Transfiguration Cathedral, enabling parishioners and parishioners to join a significant number of shrines.
- In October 2023, the UOC community was expelled from the cathedral.
- In December 2023, the "Ancient Chernigov" reserve handed over the church to the OCU, after a short time "the cathedral was closed for restoration."
The ancient cathedral needs to be maintained, but the OCU does not have the money for it, because people do not go to them. Therefore, in order to collect at least some funds for the maintenance of the cathedral, it will be opened as a museum on June 28.
