This church is in the Russian style, characterized by a column-free three-part structure and a five-domed completion. Built of brick and whitewashed, it has a main volume slightly elongated along the east-west axis, with five small widely spaced domes on pedestals. The central dome is light, while those located above the corners are blind. Lower elements adjoin the main volume: a five-sided apse, stretched in width, and a small rectangular porch with a pediment.
The facades are decorated with brick elements imitating 17th-century Russian architecture and have a certain heaviness. The walls of the church feature a high plinth, separated by a profiled belt and large width strips. Half-columns with capitals, which adorn the facades, rest on the projections of the plinth. At the corners, the half-columns are gathered in bundles, dividing the lateral sides of the square into three bays, treated with shallow niches-paneling with arcature above. Similar half-columns are installed at the corners of the apse. The walls are crowned with an entablature with a city-like frieze and a simple cornice, interrupted by arched niches on the western and eastern facades. The main room of the church is covered with a barrel vault and connected to the altar apse, which has a trough vault, through a wide opening.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, a composition "The Prayer of the Cup" was painted in the altar niche with oil paints in the spirit of late academicism. At the same time, a three-tiered iconostasis typical of the Russian style was created. Its decorative embellishments include keel-shaped and three-lobed frames for the icons of the upper tier, various columns separating the icons, and friezes with applied carvings of geometric patterns.
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