Administratively it belongs to the North-West region Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow, led by Archbishop Metropolitan Paolo Pezzi.
Cathedral is closed to the building from the street, which is Russia's only Catholic seminary Mary Queen of the Apostles.
The Cathedral has regular concerts of sacred music and is situated south of the Polish Garden.
After World War II the building of the cathedral has suffered from falling bombs, were converted to the needs of the design office.
The Cathedral has a shape of a Latin cross, combined with the building of a single sign seminary.