Thirty years ago, on October 28, 1990, thousands of people were involved in a clash at the site of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv between adherents of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (later identified as the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate or UOC-MP, as it became known) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
Just a week prior, on October 21, Patriarch Mstyslav of the UAOC had celebrated a moleben at the cathedral.
Faithful of the UAOC linked arms in a chain at entrances to the complex as well as at streets leading to St. Sophia Square. Members of the UOC-MP came to the cathedral to participate in a religious service.