St. Nicholas Cathedral, Harbin, Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Nangang District, Harbin, China.

St. Nicholas Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox church in Nangang District, Harbin, built entirely in wood following the style of traditional Russian wooden architecture. It features multiple domes and a wooden facade decorated in the manner typical of Orthodox church buildings.

The cathedral was built in 1900 to serve the Russian community that had settled in Harbin following the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The original building was torn down in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution, and a replica was later erected on a nearby site.

Harbin residents called the cathedral 'Lama Tai' (Lama Platform), and its site on the 'Dragon's Back' of Dazhi Street made it part of daily life. The venerated Albazinskaya icon of the Mother of God, ordered for the cathedral by soldiers of the Amur Military District, was a shrine for all Harbin. In 1923 a side chapel was consecrated in honour of the 'Unexpected Joy' icon.

The 1:1 replica stands in the Volga Manor resort on the Ashi River in Xiangfang District, not at the original Hongbo Square site. It opened to visitors at the end of 2009 and serves as the Nikolai Art Museum, with a bell and an Orthodox iconostasis and altar inside. Allow time to reach this suburban location.

The Russian source says the timber was supplied from Canada by special order, and that markings on the cut log ends reportedly confirmed this in later years. The claim is hedged, not documented. The architect was Iosif Padlevsky, and the on-site engineer who oversaw exact adherence to the project was Alexei Klementievich Levteev.