[5] The structure is made of stone and has a cross plan with a semicircular apse and a substantially extended western section with square additions.

The two baths with roofs had their shapes changed during the so-called reconstruction, and the only forged metal crosses that still stood in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were taken down.

[4] According to Bishop Theodosius's writings,[8] lyakhov was destroyed when Zaporozhians and Tatars burnt down the city and the church in 1650.

[4] Regretfully, there is currently no information available on the architecture of this building; all that is known about it is that the image of the Mother of God, which was carried there by an unidentified individual, initially appeared there.

However, since building wooden temples was already tightly forbidden by government decree during this time, a prohibition on new materials was also established.

Following much thought, discussion, and hesitation, the Novi Kodaky community decided that a new church, made of stone.

[8] On 23 June 1807, Ekaterinoslav Governorate priest Archpriest John Stanislavsky dedicated the area under the church,[3] set the cornerstone for its building, and placed a cross on the location of the construction.

[9] The church's parish life greatly improved when Archpriest Serhiy Kapov was named abbot on 8 October 1993, by proclamation of Bishop Agafangel.

[9] Mitroforny Archpriest Serhiy Kapov (died 8 January 2004), the temple's permanent abbot, was buried on the church grounds.