Schekavitsky cemetery

Schekavitsky cemetery, XX century

Shchekavitsky cemetery - a necropolis in Kiev on Mount Schekavitsa . The last cemetery existed here from 1772 to the 1950s. Located at the modern street Olegovskaya . Initially, until the turn of the 11-12th century, here was the first documented Jewish cemetery in Kiev ^[1] .

The last Shchekavitsky cemetery was founded in 1772 on Shchekavitsa for the burial of the inhabitants of Podil . In 1782, the All Saints Cemetery Church was built here, around which outstanding figures of the magistrate were buried. Composer Artemy Vedel , architects Andrei Melensky and Mikhail Ikonnikov , historians Pyotr Lebedintsev, Vladimir Ikonnikov rested on Schekavitsa.

In 1900, the City Government decided to close the cemetery. Single burials continued until 1928. After that, the cemetery slowly collapsed, part of it was later occupied by a military facility, and the church was demolished. Now almost nothing remains of the graves, a metal radio tower rises above the cemetery. A significant part of the graves of the Schekavitsky Old Believer and Muslim cemeteries has been preserved in separate sections on the western side, between Lukyanovskaya Street and the mountainside. In 2000, a Muslim mosque opened Ar-Rahma mosque .