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The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites (Ukrainian: Храм преподобного Симеона Стовпника) is is a church located in the village of Petropavlivska Borshchagivka, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

History
The grounds of the church belonged to the Kyiv Peter and Paul Monastery in the 18th century. A wooden church was constructed in 1755 under the supervision of the abbot of the Peter and Paul Monastery, Antoniy Velichkivskyi.

By 1849 the church was in need of major repairs and rebuilt with funding from the state treasury and donations from its parishioners. The new building was designed by diocesan architect Yevgeny Fedorovych Yermakov and a competition was announced in a Kyiv newspaper in 1908 to select a builder. The contract was awarded to Petro Temko, from Dymer, who had previously build churches in the villages of Svaromya in Chernihiv Oblast and Boyarka in Kyiv Oblast. In 908-1909 a new two-story stone church was constructed The new building had five domes and three entrances, one central and two on the sides, and included a parish library on the second floor. The facades were of the neo-Russian style and the decoration of the upper part of the church walls and other decorative elements were inspired by wooden architecture. The interior of the church was plastered and painted.

Over the remainder of the 19th and into the 20th century, the building again fell into disrepair with the domes removed from the building and the upper floor destroyed.

The church was then turned into a village club and the parish moved to a house donated by a parishioner to serve as a temporary place of worship for the congregation.

Reconstruction
Around 1992 the church and its associated property was returned to the ownership of the parishioners and abbot Simeon Afanasenko. However, renovations were only begun in 2002, after a fire. Benefactor R.B. Rostislav funded the reconstruction, along with donations from the village council and the parishioners helped.

The building's façade was restored, the domes were reconstructed, the floor was lain, and the walls were plastered. Services resumed in the church before reconstruction was complete.

Most of the reconstruction was completed in 2011.