Nikolsky Cathedral

St. Nicholas Church did not immediately become a cathedral, it was originally built as a parish church and was located in the Cossack village of Forstat, which was located outside the city. The foundation stone of the church was laid in 1883. Soon the heir to the throne, Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, presented the altarpiece Gospel as a gift to the new church - a luxurious edition in a metal salary, at the corners of which there were medallions with images of evangelical apostles.

A few years later, a chapel was erected next to the temple to store this shrine, and in 1910, two chapels appeared at the St. Nicholas Church, consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Mother of God and St. Panteleimon. In 1936, the St. Nicholas Church, like many churches throughout the country, was closed and church property looted. The church building was transferred to the hostel, which was located in it before the Great Patriotic War. In 1942, it housed the NKVD archive evacuated from Leningrad.

Soon the St. Nicholas Church was opened to believers - this happened in 1944, and it became the only functioning Orthodox church of Orenburg. At the same time, it receives the status of a cathedral. In 1955-1958, the walls of the cathedral were painted, ten years later the chapel of All Saints is being built. In 1988-1990, the rickety old dome was replaced by a new one, and restoration work is being carried out inside the cathedral.