Nativity of the blessed virgin Mary is the white stone five-domed Orthodox Church, located on the Old trade (now Chervonoarmiyska) square in the town of Kargopol of Arkhangelsk oblast. The Church building is characterized by miniaturization and elegance in comparison with other local churches. The temple looks very elegant thanks to its sophisticated decoration.

Within the Nativity Church is the earliest surviving in Kargopol buildings of the XVII century. It started to be built instead of wooden in 1678 (according to other sources in 1680) care Kargopol merchants Clement and Andrew Poletaeva, and in gratitude to the brethren, to the Church were added North and South chapels in the name of Saint Clement and Saint Andrew. The building was completed in 1682. The bell tower was built on the West side only in 1844 the merchants Andrei and Ivan Nasonovich.

Only one in Kargopol land (in the territory of the two current districts: Kargopol and Nyandoma) which operated in the years of Soviet power the parish, thus he preserved the continuity of traditions.

The Church of the Nativity of the blessed virgin Mary – one-apse temple without with five chapters. Has two slightly lowered in relation to the basic premise of the symmetric chapel, set on the North-Western and South-Western corners of the building. The plan is cruciform, stretched from East to West. High bushel complete the elegant domes of the heads on a thin patterned drums. Patterned gilded crosses represent the remake, not peculiar to Kargopol artistic traditions. From all sides to the temple joined different-sized Annex: apse, side chapels, a refectory. The West side is a wide porch.

The Church is rich of stone carving: diamonds, cloves, cushions adorn the aisles, apse, porch. Also affects a variety of decorative elements of the window frames, not placed in rows, and if run up obliquely from the bottom to the top corner from the North and descending down from the South. Each white stone, intricately carved platband is unique and inimitable beauty: one Lancet end, adjacent gearwheel, the third – keeled; IV, semicircular, and so on. The Church of the Nativity of the blessed virgin Mary represents the number of unique monuments of local style, called "Kargopol patterns". No wonder this Church has long been popularly called the "most admirable".

According to G. V. Alferova, the prototype of Bogoroditsky Church served as Moscow Jews temples. In addition, she points to the singularity for Kargopol stone architecture of the availability of low cosy interior of this Church that resemble "intimate interiors" characteristic wooden churches.

Now the Church is one of two parish churches of the city. Archpriest Boris (the peddler) perform the duties of rector of the parish.