The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary stands in Saint Petersburg, south of the Polish Garden. It was built beside the new residence of the Archbishop of Mogilev, head of the Catholic Church in the Russian Empire, who moved there in 1849. Vasily Sobolshchikov drafted the design, and Evgraf Vorotilov completed the construction. It was built from 1870 to 1873 and consecrated on April 12, 1873.
It has a Latin cross plan and is combined with a seminary building in a single complex. In 1896 and 1897 it was expanded, and its capacity grew from 750 to 1,500. The government closed it in 1930. It was damaged by bombing and later used as a design office.
Services resumed on February 16, 1997. It was consecrated again on May 24, 1998.
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