[2] The stone church of the Epiphany and the belltower were built by merchants Ivan Afanasievich Mikhlyaev and Sergey Alexandrovich Chernov in 1731-1756.

[6][7] In July 1893, the newspaper "Volzhsky Vestnik" announced a competition for the best design of a new bell tower in the Russian Revival style.

[7][8] The authorship of the new bell tower is disputed due to the loss of the original design with the author's signature.

Rusch, who submitted the project and received a 150 rubles prize, was named the winner of the competition in Soviet local history publications.

[1][7] Construction of the new bell tower began on November 24, 1893, but only the foundation was laid and excavation was done to a depth of five fathoms from the surface.

[1][7] Newspaper reports of the time indicate that the bell tower was built with almost two million bricks and its final cost was 50,000 rubles,[1] 10,000 of which was spent on deep foundations.

In 1902 in this room a temple was installed and consecrated on May 20, 1904 in memory of the 3rd anniversary of the discovery of the beautiful head of St. John the Baptist (May 25)".

A lightning strike caused a large hole in the wall, one and a half quarters deep and one arşın wide.

The main one: cold, two-domed in honor of the Epiphany of the Lord with the side chape of the Holy First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen.

The second one: warm, two-domed in honor of St. Andrew the Apostle with the side chapel of the Holy Martyrs of Prince Michael of Chernigov and his Boyar Fyodor; the third - cold, single-domed.

[13] In 1995, the Epiphany Cathedral was included in the list of federal historical and cultural heritage of all-Russian significance as a monument of town planning and architecture.

The six tholobates and all three apses of the altar were surrounded by brick armour belts, which extended for tens of meters under the roof of the massive building.

The temple was once surrounded by a classical metal fence, complete with a gate and a chapel (which no longer exists).

[11] Originally, the design included a passage from the street to the Epiphany Church through the first level, which was built during the Soviet period and opened in the 1990s.

Large arches cut through the column and it is completed with a tinned steel chapter on a faceted tholobate.

[11] The decorative style of the building is a skillful combination of ordinary and shaped red brick with white stone composition.

It is based on a pictorial combination of modernized Old Russian patterns with geometric forms from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The design features arched openings with keel-shaped cornices, kokoshniki corbel-like decorations and semi-columns with overlapping on the ribs of octagonal, repeated in different versions of the blind arcade.