Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Catholic cathedral in Kharkov, named after the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Located at the address: Kharkov, st. Gogol 4.

The first building of the cathedral (in the name of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary; architect Vereshchinsky, 1831) was located somewhat to the south, at the corner with the lane. Maryanenko (former Proviantsky) and was destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.
A new temple in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1887-1892. according to the project of the Kharkov city engineer B. G. Mikhailovsky. The building has a basilica shape, a high Gothic bell tower with a round rose window in the second tier, topped with a spire.

On July 26, 1892, the church was consecrated by Bishop Francis Simon. The organ, made at the Etgiton factory in Bavaria, was installed in April 1901.

An almshouse for the needy, a shelter for orphans, a parish school, and a chapel at the cemetery were opened. In 1906-1914. there is a frequent change of priests, the temple is being actively repaired and equipped.
The parish was made up of Roman Catholics of various nationalities. Signature sheets for recording donations for the construction of the temple were printed in Russian, Polish, French and German. With the migration of the population during the First World War, the Polish group stands out in the parish. At the temple, the public meeting “Polish House” begins to operate, which housed the refugee employment bureau, the Kharkov branch of the Society for Assistance to Poor Families of Poles who took part in the war, and the Polish population affected by hostilities, a gymnastic section in the old church building. Since that time, Polish terminology has been fixed among Kharkovites - “church”, “priest”. Since 1915, a large number of Armenian refugees from the territory of the Ottoman Empire appeared in Kharkov, including Catholic Armenians, who influenced the national composition of the parish.
In 1917, the parish almshouse was closed. On April 8, 1922, the provincial commission for the seizure of church valuables confiscated several items of liturgical utensils. From the summer of 1922 until March 22, 1924, Kharkov served as a stronghold for the action of providing humanitarian aid, collected by the Catholics of the West.
On December 31, 1924, the Catholic community concludes an agreement with the provincial executive committee of the Council of Deputies "on the acceptance for free and indefinite use of the temple and the objects in it." In 1927, the authorities carried out a description of all church property of the parish. Believers were forced to annually submit data on the composition of the parish to the Kharkiv Gubernia Executive Committee. These reports show that the parish remained diverse in terms of nationality (Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, Armenians, French, Lithuanians, Latvians, Italians, Belgians, Hungarians), social and age composition, but the total number of parishioners decreased from 1346 people. ( in 1910) to 766 people. (as of January 1927).
Until the mid-1930s, the life of the parish was distinguished by relative calm. On February 4, 1938, the rector of the Armenian Catholic community, Fr. Karapet Yeganyan (shot on May 27, 1938 in Kharkov). On November 4, 1940, the executive committee of the Kharkov City Council passed a resolution on the closure of the temple, approved on December 10 at a meeting of the executive committee of the Kharkov Regional Council. The building was transferred to the theater. Shevchenko. Divine services resumed during the fascist occupation and continued after the liberation of Kharkov until 1945, when the temple was finally closed and transferred to the film distribution base. The room was divided into two floors with many rooms.
On January 7, 1991, the future rector of the parish, Fr. Yuri Ziminsky celebrated the first post-war mass on the steps of the church. Divine services on the steps of the temple and in the apartments of believers are becoming regular. Soon the community of Kharkov Roman Catholics was registered by the Kiev District Executive Committee of Kharkov. The process of gradual (from several rooms on the second floor) return of the temple building to the parish begins, which ended in December 1991. By the beginning of the 2000s. the interior of the temple was restored and equipped.

The parish library operates, including Braille books for the blind, the parish publishing house Magnificat, a branch of the international organization Caritas, and the magazine Word with Us is published (in Russian and Ukrainian). The cathedral is the center of the Kharkiv-Zaporozhye diocese of the Roman Catholic Church.