Talk:Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv

Requested move 26 October 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Consensus to move (non-admin closure) BegbertBiggs (talk) 10:57, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kyiv → Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv – Please see the History section in the article. The cathedral is not dedicated to a saint called Sophia in the way that (for instance) St Paul's is dedicated to St Paul. "Saint Sophia" is from Sancta Sophia, which is a Latinisation of the Koine Greek Hagia Sophia. It means Holy (or Divine) Wisdom. The 's (apostrophe-s) is unnecessary and misleading. Please also see the List of churches dedicated to Holy Wisdom for analogous examples and (at the bottom) a list of churches that really are dedicated to a saint called Sophia. Frans Fowler (talk) 06:49, 26 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Support. "Saint Sophia Cathedral" is the most common name in English, as per the UNESCO listing, and disambiguation by comma and location is the standard method of disambiguation. SilkTork (talk) 09:24, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nomination and SilkTork. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support Agricolae (talk) 16:51, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support, more common name.--Astral Leap (talk) 10:02, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Christmas liturgy
I removed the stuff you added about Christmas liturgy in Ukrainian. The articles you are citing are talking about the Dormition Cathedral (we don't have an article on it, but there is a section of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra article for it), which is a separate cathedral from Saint Sophia. Maybe OCU had a Christmas service in Saint Sophia as well, but I haven't seen any news articles saying that. Slightly confusingly, both Saint Sophia and the Lavra are part of the same World Heritage listing, but physically separate; Dormition Cathedral is part of the Lavra. SomethingForDeletion (talk) 23:57, 9 January 2023 (UTC)