The Cossack Church of Intercession of the Holy Virgin

The Cossack three-domed wooden church is located in the center of the architectural ensemble "Mamayeva Sloboda". Nearby stands a three-tiered wooden bell tower with a "Sun of Truth" cross. Inside, the church features a Baroque iconostasis and icons in the Mazepa Baroque style. Among the museum's most treasured artifacts is the icon "Theotokos of Sloboda, the Cossack Queen," a masterpiece by the artist Oleksandr Tsugorka. As early as 1993, the Kyiv City Council secured a plot of land for the Kozak Mamai Folklore Center, to create the Mamayeva Sloboda corner of Ukrainian nature, architecture, and everyday life on it. Soon, a small wooden Intercession Chapel, modelled after one of Taras Shevchenko’s drawings, was built here. The chapel ceased to exist (because of arson) in 1998. On the same day, Patriarch Dymytrii also performed the ceremony of laying a wooden (pine) three-story church with a bell tower, 13 meters high, in honour of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, a church similar to the one that was located in Zaporozhian Sich during the liberation struggles of Hetman Bohdan Zynovii Khmelnytskyi.