Trinity Church - the first stone church in Dikanka - was built on the site of the old wooden Holy Cross Church on the bank of a large pond. The construction was carried out in 1780 under the guidance of the architect G. Orlov at the expense of the Poltava regiment Pavel Kochubey. In 1781, a two-tiered quadrangular bell tower was built, much lower than the church. The young Nikolai Gogol often visited the Holy Trinity Church. According to legend, it was in the Trinity Church that the blacksmith Vakula, one of the main characters of Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas", visited, and it was here that he painted the devil in hell. In Soviet times, the temple was looted, the dome was removed from it, it was used as a granary and warehouse. In 1984, on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of N.V. Gogol, the restoration of the Trinity Church began. The revived Holy Trinity Church was re-consecrated at Easter in May 1993.