Laid temple was the blessing of the local bishop in 1845. The author of the architectural design of the temple has become a well-known figure of the Kharkov Art - Andrew Ton. In 1857 the church building was completed in the same year, St. Innocent (Borisov), while the Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, took part in the consecration of the altar of the temple, which was opened for worship on 11 September.
The building belongs to the neo-Byzantine style. At the end of the 19th century, a cemetery was located on the site of the current Youth Park, which was later razed to the ground, which is why the church was called the cemetery. In the 1920s, services were discontinued, and an ammunition depot was set up in the church during preparations for World War II. Divine services resumed in 1943 and were permitted in Soviet times. However, the Soviet government peculiarly fought against the architectural majesty of church buildings: the church was not demolished, but it, like nearby houses, was painted in a “dull” dark gray color. In 1977-1978, the cemetery was liquidated. In 1987, a church was built and consecrated in the church in honor of the Monk Job of Pochaev. Two years later, the temple was repainted in white-brick-red color, corresponding to the vestments of the priests, dressed on the feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist. In 2007, architects decided to return the white-sky-blue color. At present, services are held weekly and during the twelfth holidays, the temple is fenced with a parkan, so you can get to its territory only during services. The temple is one of the cross-domed domes whose elevated central dome denotes the Divinity of the cosmos, symbolizes the four apostles and the Savior towering above them. Overlapping are cross-shaped cylindrical arches, and a drum with a dome rises above the central cell, on the supporting arches. The central altar is fenced off with a stained glass iconostasis.
