The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin on Podil, located at 7 Pokrovska Street, is the oldest and most venerated among the three Intercession churches in Kyiv. The first church on this site was built by Armenians as early as the 14th century, and in 1685 a wooden church was erected with funds from the Greek merchant Garnaviot. The present stone church was constructed in 1766–1772 to the design of the prominent master of Ukrainian Baroque, Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi. The structure originally had a two-tier layout: the upper tier served as the main church, while the lower one functioned as a heated winter church. After the great fire of 1811, the interior vaults collapsed, and the church was restored as a single-tier building.
Pokrovska Church is considered one of the finest examples of Ukrainian Baroque and a creative interpretation of wooden Cossack triple-chamber architecture translated into stone. Its decorative elements clearly reveal Ukrainian motifs harmoniously combined with European Baroque, making the church unique and stylistically complete. A characteristic feature is the large number of window openings — a typical element for churches dedicated to the Feast of the Intercession.
Next to the church stands the bell tower built on the site of the old Armenian church. Its upper wooden tier burned down in 1811, and nineteen years later it was rebuilt in masonry with a hemispherical dome, which was later replaced in the late 19th century with a four-sided tented roof topped by a spire. In the early 19th century, a two-storey annex was added to the western façade of the church to house the heated Church of St. John the Warrior, and later a phosphor bakery, which still exists today. This architectural complex remains an important part of historic Podil and a valuable cultural landmark of Kyiv.