One of the main attractions of the North-Eastern outskirts Sum, with the historical name of the settlement Luka, is a stone Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist with a bell tower. The Church is located on a street Ordzhonikidze, 87 and clearly visible from the Lipno of the settlement and the banks of the river Psyol.

The establishment of Sumy Colonel G. Kondratiev in 1687 maiden, St. John the Baptist monastery served as the pretext for the construction of the wooden Church of the same name in 1691 In 1787, the monastery was abolished and in its place, in 1837, was built a new stone Church with a bell tower. The temple was built at the expense of local nobility – family Lintvarevy and served as parish Church for the villagers of Baranivka and Luke. In 1907 the Church was built on the two side altar of the Holy Trinity and St. John.

Currently the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist - rectangular in plan, devotedly, four pillars, with a rectangular altar, with two-story bell tower on the Western porch and a four-columned portico of the Tuscan order on the West facade. Two sides of the portico allocated triangular pediments additional inputs that lead to the corresponding side of the altar. The Church building is designed in the style of the late provincial classicism. Externally, the Church is decorated quite modestly – blades, niches and pilasters, cornices and rust on the modillions. The stone Church of red bricks and lime-sand mortar, whitewashed. The roof on the wooden circles and the rafters are covered with steel roofing.

Individual paintings in the interior of the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist, and the iconostasis was made in the second half of the 20th century