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Churches in war and peace

SINCE it was built in the early decades of the 11th century, St Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, has witnessed more than its fair share of death and destruction—at the hands of the Mongols in 1240, Crimean Tatars in 1482 and the Nazis in 1941. Images of

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