Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the city of Rostov-on-Don is located on Stanislavsky, 58. Having found at the address sought temple traveling surprised at the similarity of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. This similarity is due to the fact that the capital project was used by architect Konstantin Ton, the author of the main cathedral in Moscow.

Annals of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary historians lead with 1766. When in place ramshackle wooden chapel in the possession of the Metropolitan Dmitry of Rostov erected a wooden church of the Nativity of the Virgin. Last wooden church in 1791 by lightning burned. The new stone church, translated by decree of the Holy Synod, to the rank of the cathedral, there was only a wooden dome.

After the consecration of the cathedral in 1822 it passed 32 and the temple is no longer could accommodate the increased flocks multiply, then in 1860, after a 6-year-old building was consecrated magnificent temple richly decorated with colored marble, copper and gold leaf. Beautiful paintings, icons, valuable utensils, wrought-iron fence and a cross on the dome - it was purchased at the expense of merchants and patrons. At the end of the XIX century. It was erected a majestic bell tower chetyrёhyarusnaya. In the first tier of the consecrated the church of St. Nicholas. The second and third tier occupied belfry. They say the sound of the main bell (1032 pounds in weight) could be heard 40 miles away in the district.

In the 20s of the cathedral suffered from the revolutionary fanaticism, but was not destroyed. Before the war in the territory of the temple even housed a zoo. In 1942, the bell tower has lost two tiers. The occupation of the cathedral was applicable. Another revival and consecration of the cathedral was timed to the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia. The area in front of the temple decorated with a monument of St. Dmitri of Rostov. Cathedral sanctifies His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II.