Podil is one of the oldest trade and craft districts of Kyiv, where Christian churches have long been built. Wealthy merchants, artisans, philistines, Cossacks were not only their parishioners, but also the founders and clerks of many of them. The authors of architectural complexes of structures - architects, icon painters, folk masters, craftsmen - have invested all their talent, a rich idea of ​ ​ beauty and worldview, love for their native land. Many sacred structures of Podil became masterpieces of building art.