In 1833, the Holy Synod granted permission to build a cemetery church in honor of the Ascension of the Lord. The plan and facade were approved on March 20 of the same year by committee member Joseph Charles. Funding for the construction was provided by Kungur merchants Ivan Khlebnikov, Yakov Odintsov, and Nikolai Ryazanov. The church was laid on May 4, 1833, at the southeast cemetery by the archpriest of the Annunciation Cathedral, Peter Lukanin, and was completed in 1844. The building is cross-shaped, with a length of 16 fathoms including the bell tower and a width of 6 fathoms. Inside, the church is divided by a solid wall into two parts: one with a dome, the cold church in honor of the Ascension of the Lord, and the other, the warm church in honor of John Chrysostom. Both parts are connected by a small door. The interior space of the church is bright and spacious, designed as a square chamber with a round dome. The iconostasis is wooden, made in three tiers, decorated with carvings and gilding. This iconostasis was transferred from the Kungur Assumption Church. The warm chapel in honor of John Chrysostom is smaller in size but also designed as a square chamber.

The Ascension Cemetery Church was built at a time when classicism was beginning to lose popularity even in the provinces. It belongs to the type of single-dome churches without a drum, characteristic of the Priural region. Its design features can be linked to the Church of All Sorrows in St. Petersburg, created by L. Ruska, and the Kazan monument to fallen soldiers by N. Alferov. The church was affiliated with the Annunciation Cathedral, and its clergy conducted services there on certain days. At the request of parishioners, priests from other city churches also held services. Since 1910, according to the Synod's decree of August 24, a priest and a psalmist were appointed to the church. Initially, the church's income was modest; for example, in 1859, it amounted to only 37 rubles and 95 kopecks, but by 1890 it increased to 600-700 rubles per year. From 1872 to 1884, with voluntary donations from the residents of Kungur, a stone fence was built around the cemetery on three sides, costing 3670 rubles and 50 kopecks, and 56,000 bricks were donated. There was no fence on the western side due to the steep slope of the mountain. In 1940, the church was closed by the authorities, windows and doors were boarded up, and crosses and bells were removed. However, the building endured and was preserved, although it is no longer used for its original purpose. It housed a club, a vegetable storage facility, and a bread warehouse, and in recent decades, workshops of a telephone factory.