the original church, and that excavations were allegedly unable to determine the layout of its foundation. On 3 February 2005, the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, signed a decree on the restoration of the Tithe Church, to which the state budget provides nearly ₴90 million ($18 million). In 2006, an Orthodox tabernacle was established near Desyatynna church. In 2007, a wooden church was built in the location of the tabernacle, consecrated by Primate of the UOC Metropolitan Volodymyr on July 25 of that year. On July 9, 2009, at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, it was decided to open the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Desyatynnyi monastery in Kyiv and appoint as governor Gideon Archimandrite (Charon). In January 2010, Kyiv's Head of Urban Planning, Architecture and Urban Environment Design, Sergii Tsilovalnyk, reported that a platform will be built on the ruins of the Tithe church to serve as a foundation for the new church, which will belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). In January 2018, two men attempted to set fire to the 2007 (Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)) wooden church near the Church of the Tithes. Also in January 2018, Ukrainian nationalist groups S14, and dismantled the information board of this church. In January 2023, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy called for the dismantling of the 2007 building in court. According to the ministry, the building was illegally located on the territory of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine. On 15 February 2023 the Commercial Court of Kyiv ordered the dismantling of the 2007 building. List of burials Within its premises the church had a princely tomb. Pope Clement I Anna of Byzantium Vladimir the Great Olga of Kiev, reburied from Vyshhorod Yaropolk I of Kiev Oleg of the Drevlyans The remnants of Anna of Byzantium and Vladimir the Great were first reburied in the Church of the Saviour and later in the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv Caves Monastery. Some remnants were reburied in the Saint Sophia's Cathedral. External links Church of the Tithes 3D-model of Church of the Tithes (1.33Mb) References Former buildings and structures of Kyiv 10th-century churches Vasily Stasov buildings and structures Religious buildings and structures completed in 996 1240 disestablishments in Europe Churches completed in 1842 Buildings and structures demolished in 1935 Demolished churches in Ukraine Stone churches Churches in Kyiv Demolished buildings