The Church was built in 1700 (the high altar is dedicated to the Our Lady of the Sign Icon) upon the arduous Ivanovskaya Gorka (Hill) in Kulishki District of Moscow (the right word is "kulizhki" translated as "a clearing in the woods"), near the Yauza River's mouth, by the Yauza Gate. It was constructed at the place of an ancient Church of SS. Peter and Paul, which was first mentioned in 1620.
In 1702, a refectory with the side chapel dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul appeared; in 1731, the southern side chapel of the Our Lady of Kazan Icon was built with support from A. Kolychyova. The Church was reconstructed from 1878 to 1882 and extended to the west. In 1864, the sacristy was damaged. In 1878, the Church was renovated. A three-storey bell tower appeared in 1771.
The Church's architectural style: Moscow Baroque. A rectangular plan. It is the church with one onion dome on a faceted octagonal drum with lantern windows. The walls feature white-stone linings with apexes and wide jagged eaves. The facades have attached columns at the corners with broken lining gables of windows and portals.
The northern portal is crowned with small kokoshniks. The early classicism bell tower has baroque elements including a drum with helices, an "eye" in the centre, and sculpturesque window openings. The onion dome is on an extended, high base.
The Church has not been closed since 1917. Several icons received from destroyed churches as well as the own bells have survived.
A carved gilded icon stand dates back to the mid 19th century. Individual fragments of 18th-century gilded carvings have survived too. From 1944 to 1946, carved gilded ciboria were made above the main icons. Near the holy door a gilded arch was built. Frescoes painted in the side chapels' vaults are adorned with coloured and gilded tiles. There is the Foot Washing Icon above the holy doors of the northern side chapel; the Icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos — above the southern one.
After the Church of Our Lady of Georgia (the Church of the Intercession in Vorontsovo Pole Street) was destroyed, its icon, the 17th-century revered copy of the Our Lady of Georgia Icon, was moved to the Church in 1932. The Icons of the Dormition of the Theotockos and John the Baptist are in the highest regard.
Sacred objects include the wonder-working Bogolubskaya Icon of the Theotokos, moved here from a destroyed chapel in the Barbarian Gate of Kitay-gorod, 36 relics of the Saints in the communion cross, relics of St. Peter and the Reverend Metropolitan Nilus of Stolben Island. The Mission of the Serbian Orthodox Church is located in the Church of SS. Peter and Paul.
By order of Empress Elizabeth I, on 15 July 1759, a stone church was laid in the marine regimental court, on the bank of the Kryukov Canal. It was constructed for naval men to a design by Savva Chevakinsky, the chief architect of the Admiralty Board. Construction of the temple was finished in 1760, and immediately it became a peculiar ornament to t...
From 1712 to 1714, a wooden church dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel was built at the place of the present church. Peter the Great ordered to construct it in honour of the Name Day of his eldest daughter Anna Petrovna. After it became dilapidated, Tsarina Anna Ivanovna ordered to build a new stone church.
In 1731, architect Mikhail Zemtsov ...
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