page_title: Bila Tserkva
section_title: Sights
hierarchical_section_title: Bila Tserkva / Sights
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of John the Baptist, Bila Tserkva
context_page_description: Bila Tserkva is a city in central Ukraine, the largest city in Kiev Oblast. Bila Tserkva is located on the Ros River approximately 80 km south of Kiev. The area is 67.8 square kilometres Its population is approximately 207,745.
  Administratively, Bila Tserkva is incorporated as a town of oblast significance. It also serves as the administrative center of Bila Tserkva Raion, though administratively it does not belong to the raion.
context_section_description: A historical landscape park Arboretum Oleksandriya of 400,67 acres is situated in Bila Tserkva. It was founded in 1793 by the wife of the Polish hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki.
  Notable buildings include the Merchant Court (1809–1814) and the Post Yard (1825–31).
  There are also Palladian wooden buildings of the Branicki "Winter Palace" and the District Nobility Assembly (now it is gone because of a conflagration).
  The St. Nicholas Church was started in 1706 by Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazepa, but was not completed until 1852.
  The Orthodox Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral was constructed in 1833–1839.
  The Roman Catholic St. John the Baptist Church dates to 1812.
  The St. Mary Magdalene Church was completed in 1846 by Count Branicki.
  The building of a mid-19th century Great Choral Synagogue is preserved. Today it is the Technology and Economic College of Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University.
  The Shukhov Water Tower - a tower that is supporting a water tank was built by a project of Vladimir Shukhov - a Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect.
caption: Church of John the Baptist, Bila Tserkva
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