Begun building in 1899, this wooden Cathedral in Central Square, Harbin, was completed in 1900. On August 23, 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, the Cathedral was destroyed by the Red Guards. Present day Square was where the original Cathedral use to stand.
According to Harbin municipal religious archive, Fr Valentin Baryshnikov served as the sixth rector, while the seventh and last rector of the Cathedral Fr Anikita Wang was martyred in 1967.
