Kursk's Roman Catholic church is an arresting sight in a city dominated by Orthodox architecture — a Gothic-revival building of red brick and pointed arches that would look at home in Germany or Poland. The parish dates to the early nineteenth century when Kursk had a significant Catholic population; the current building survived the Soviet period in a diminished state and has been restored as an active place of worship.
The interior is modest but the architecture is worth seeing for its contrast with the city's other churches. The congregation today is small, composed largely of ethnic Poles and Germans who remained in the region after the Soviet period, and the liturgy is conducted in Polish as well as Russian. The church stands near the city centre and is easy to combine with a walk to the Znamensky Cathedral.