Holy Resurrection Cathedral

The heart of our city

Organization, simplicity, openness and a pleasant impression after the first meeting with a church employee. This is the place you want to come back a.. Read more »gain

Churches,churches...beautiful churshes

Svyato Voskresenskii Cathedral - the main Orthodox church of Sumy, the oldest stone building in the city, an excellent example of Ukrainian Baroque. T.. Read more »he cathedral was built at the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries. at the expense of the founder of the city G. Kondratiev and his son A. Kondratiev. According to legend, during the construction, Kondratieff's sister Maria, the chieftain of a robber gang, was immured into the wall of the temple. The architecture of the two-storey stone cathedral repeats the traditional forms of Ukrainian wooden church architecture - it looks like three-cossack Cossack churches. Judging by the thickness of the walls (up to 1.5 m), the characteristic shape of the window-loopholes and the location on the former line. city ​​fortifications, the Resurrection Cathedral was part of the Sumy defense system. An underground passage led to the river, which is now filled. In Soviet times, there was a department of decorative and applied art of the art museum. After 1991, the Resurrection Church was returned to believers, and is now the cathedral church of the Sumy Diocese of the UOC Kiev Patriarchate.