It shares similarities with the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn and is considered a high point in Russian Revival ecclesiastical architecture.

It was built to a Russian Revival design by Yevhen Yermakov [uk] between 1905 and 1912.

The outer walls are covered with a mazy web of tracery.

[2] It was closed for worship and thoroughly looted in the 1920s and damaged in World War II.

The other church building of the convent conforms to the cathedral in style.