3D print Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv
A free, printable model of the cathedral and its separate bell tower, with the paths, green patches and buildings around them, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv
Kyiv's Saint Sophia Cathedral, in Ukraine, is a monument of Kyivan Rus' architecture and ranks among the city's best-known landmarks. Together with the Kyiv Cave Monastery complex, it was Ukraine's first heritage site on the World Heritage List. Beyond the main building, the complex has a bell tower, the House of Metropolitan and other supporting structures. The cathedral is a museum.
It was built as Kyiv's metropolitan cathedral, with a design that made room for the burial of Yaroslav the Wise and his descendants. Its foundation date is contested because the evidence is limited and contradictory. UNESCO and the Ukrainian government have accepted 1011, and the government officially celebrated the cathedral's 1000th anniversary during 2011.
Restoration began during the reign of Petro Mohyla, from 1633 to 1647. Influenced by western European ideas, Mohyla and his architects made the cathedral look, from the outside, like a Baroque church. A major renovation between 1690 and 1707, overseen by Metropolitan Varlaam Yasinsky with financial help from Hetman Ivan Mazepa, raised the galleries, added four new domes and rebuilt the tops of the towers in the Ukrainian Baroque style. A newly built bell tower with a dome went up in 1699, and another major restoration followed between 1843 and 1853.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 23 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 28 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 36 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A tall, separate bell tower
- The bell tower stands apart from the cathedral and ends in a small onion dome with a thin cross. Print slowly with good cooling for the top, and use layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm to keep its open arches crisp.
- Clusters of small domes
- Several small domes crowd the cathedral roof. Print friendly adapts their thin tips to the print scale, while Full detail and a bigger print size keep them rounded.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv grows with the print: about 23 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
