The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan, probably the most venerated icon in Russia.

Church of Our Lady of Kazan was designed by the architect Nikolay Nikonov and raised for the Russian villa colony in Terijoki.

During the Finnish period, it was the largest Eastern Orthodox church in Finland.

As Terijoki was captured by the Soviet troops in 1939, the church served as a warehouse until the late 1970s.

As the population of the villa colony rose up to tens of thousands, the church was enlarged in 1894 by the drawings of J. F. Bruni.