This church is the oldest in Poltava. In the middle of the seventeenth century it was probably a side precinct of the wooden Church of the Transfiguration of Christ, which burned down in 1705.
The first fortified camp of the Russian army was built on June 20th 1709 when the Russian Army crossed river Vorskla River near villages Semyonovka and Petrovka.
This church is the oldest in Poltava. In the middle of the seventeenth century it was probably a side precinct of the wooden Church of the Transfiguration of Christ, which burned down in 1705.
The first fortified camp of the Russian army was built on June 20th 1709 when the Russian Army crossed river Vorskla River near villages Semyonovka and Petrovka.
