Cathedral of Prelate Metropolitan Michael of Kiev, Kiev

Saint Michael’s Church, located on the grounds of the historic Alexander Hospital, is a restored Orthodox church with deep spiritual and historical significance.

Constructed in 1895 as a chapel for the Alexander Hospital—an institution founded in 1874 through public donations to assist the city’s poor—the church was made possible thanks to the support of philanthropist Mikhail Degterev, who also served as its warden and was later buried in its crypt.

The church’s main altar was dedicated to Metropolitan Michael of Kyiv, the first Orthodox metropolitan in Ukraine, while two side chapels honored Saints Zechariah and Elizabeth.

Following the 1917 Revolution, the church was closed, and the hospital was nationalized and renamed after the Great October Socialist Revolution. In 1930, the church was completely demolished, with only its foundations and crypt surviving the Soviet era.

For many decades, the site remained in ruins, until restoration work began in 2000. The fully rebuilt church was consecrated in 2002, and from 2012 to 2017, it also served as a metochion of the Athonite Panteleimon Monastery.