In ancient times there existed a monastery, and a stone church of St. Nicholas Jordan is first mentioned in 1530 The name refers to the legend of the miracles of Saint Nicholas. One pilgrim, while in Palestine, he dropped a silver ladle in the Jordan River and, later visiting Kiev, found the bucket, drawing water in the sump Nicholas Church. Temple at the beginning of the XVII century. Wojciech Sokolowski gentleman made out to build a brick from his house. The monastery was transferred to St. Cyril's monastery, under the patronage of which in 1616 there was founded a female monastery of St. Nicholas Jordan. Since 1713 the neighborhood is located a female monastery of St. John the Theologian, translated by order of Peter I in St. Michael's Mount. Both the monastery there next to eliminate in 1787, fire destroyed the monastery in 1821 the building and preserved wooden church refectory Great Martyr. Demetrius served as a parish church. Stone temple built on the site in 1883-84 years. The temple was closed in early 1930., And in 1935 - has been analyzed. In 1935, the Jordanian church was demolished and its foundations built on the school, which during World War II was a Nazi concentration camp for Soviet prisoners of war. Today is the administrative building of the Kiev musical mill. History has preserved for us the building of the former parish house, which now houses the interdistrict Podolsko Obolonskiy mental hospital. Survived to our time as the Jordanian source, surrounded by a dump until recently. Prayer and Orthodox Christians together the area was cleared. Since 2002, the faithful spend on it vodosvyatnye prayers, and December 19, 2004, the feast day of St. Nicholas, was made first Divine Liturgy in St. Nicholas Church of Jordan, which is experiencing its rebirth from the ashes is the third time.