Church of All Holy Martyrs (Beijing)

[1] On October 11, 1901, the 18th head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission to Beijing, Archimandrite Innocent (Figurovsky), presented a list of 222 Chinese Orthodox Christians who had been killed in the Boxer Rebellion to the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate and petitioned for permission to build a church in their memory.

2874 dated April 22, 1902 allowed the construction of the church with a crypt to hold the remains of the Chinese martyrs who were Orthodox Christians.

The decree also established an annual celebration for the Orthodox Christian community in China on the 10th and 11th of June O.S.

In 1906, a second floor was built over the one-story crypt building, in which the church in the name of St. Nicholas was consecrated.

[2] On April 3 2007, Holy Saturday, a memorial cross and plaque were erected on the former site of the church.

The Church of All Holy Martyrs in Beijing and Metropolitan Innocent (Figurovsky), who had initiated its construction