Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ was built in 1900 with funds donated by the Foundation named after Emperor Alexander III. The consecration of the Cathedral took place in may 1901

In addition to its main destination, the Cathedral was used as a school, which was headed by the wife of the first Abbot of the temple, the priest A. Mikhailovsky. The temple was attributed to several military units. Some time after the consecration near the Cathedral was built the parish house. With time in the temple restoration works were carried out, during which expanded the refectory of the temple, built and commemorative chapel, named in honor of St. innocent of Irkutsk.

Arriving for permanent residence to the far East immigrants brought with them the memory of their native land and the Holy sites. That is why the Cathedral was written Pochaev icon of the Mother of God.

In the late 1930s, the city authorities decided to transfer the building of the temple in the possession of the far Eastern railway for kindergarten. Its doors to the faithful Church of Christ re-opened during the Second world war, gaining the status of a Cathedral. In 1945, on the feast of the Transfiguration of the reformed Church held its first service. In the 1970s, the temple has a beautiful carved wooden iconostasis.

The status of the Cathedral was returned only in 1989 After 15 years in Khabarovsk took place the consecration of the new Cathedral of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky.

In the Cathedral of the Nativity you can see many different images of the Mother of God, the Savior and other saints. Today the Church of the Nativity is in the list of objects of the Khabarovsk region of great historical and cultural value.