The Spaska Church (Church of the Transfiguration) is architecturally unique in Ukraine: a full stone shell built in the late 18th century specifically to enclose and protect an earlier wooden church from 1706. The wooden structure inside is one of the last surviving Cossack-era wooden churches in the region. The outer Baroque church creates an unusual double-layer interior, where visitors effectively pass through one church to reach another older one within.
story: > The wooden church inside dates to just three years before the famous battle. Local tradition holds that Peter the Great attended a thanksgiving service here after his victory in 1709. Whether true or not, the congregation in 1706 could not have anticipated that within a century, someone would build an entire new church around their building rather than replace it.