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The Holy Intercession Bishops' Cathedral is a monument of cult architecture and local urban planning.
The first church that stood in the place of the current Holy Intercession Bishops' Cathedral was built in 1778 mainly from wood. In 1886, the the Holy Intercession Cathedral was laid on the site of the former Intercession Church, which was destroyed in the 1930s.
In 1993, a decision was made to restore The Holy Intercession Bishops' Cathedral to its original appearance. Construction lasted for 14 years. The newly built temple became an exact copy of the main temple of Oleksandrivsk, which was destroyed at the beginning of the 20th century.
The height of the cathedral is 53 meters. It is decorated with a rare iconostasis in the Ukrainian Baroque style, which was probably created in 1730. For over 200 years, it was located in the church in honor of Archistrategos Michael in one of the rural parishes of Podillya. It is possible that even Cossacks prayed in front of this ancient iconostasis. In 1938, when the church was finally destroyed, the iconostasis ended up in a private collection and was being prepared for export abroad. But later it was transferred to the Zaporizhzhya Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.