 In beginning of the 17th century, there was established Epiphany Monastery of the Kyiv Orthodox Brotherhood, which also later contained the Kyiv Mohyla Academy.Until mid of the 17th century at Podil existed Armenian community that had own Church of the Nativity of the Virgin.Also during the first half of the 17th century there were built two stone Catholic temples, the cathedral kosciol that was destroyed in the 1660s and its remnants found during archaeological excavations and a cathedral of the Dominican Monastery of St Nicholas that existed in 1400s-1649 and at end of the 17th century was turned to Orthodox cathedral of the Monastery of Sts Peter and Paul.