A tour guide accompanied by a group unlocks the rear entrance doors to the Trinity Gate Church so we zoom across the courtyard to join them. The rear entrance to the church is simple but the front archway entrance is a spectacle to whet the appetite for sights inside the complex. Along one wall in this small church is a row of old wooden seats. This leaves little room to accommodate all of us comfortably. With few exceptions, most Ukrainian churches do not contain many benches.
Parishioners stand or kneel on the ground throughout the service.
As we are crowded in, everyone is gawking and straining to see as much as possible. The tour guide speaks Russian so again I miss valuable historical data, but the beauty of the church speaks for itself. Amazingly, murals cover almost every square inch of the dark green walls. I get a crick in my neck looking up at the elaborately painted ceiling. The gilded iconostasis is spectacular.