Pavel Kharitonenko, the son of Sumy sugar producer Ivan Kharitonenko, who continued to build his father's sugar empire, ordered the construction of the church as his own tomb. The cathedral was founded in 1901 and built for a very long time - even a year after the customer's death (he died in 1914) the temple was not yet completed, and in 1915 construction stopped - there was a war and profits were not too much to spend her on a huge building. The cathedral itself consists of two parts - the upper (actually, the temple itself) and the lower (underground).→