[citation needed] 7 July 2016 the head of the Western Vicariate of Moscow Bishop Tikhon of Yegoryevsk consecrated the erected church by the brief rite.

[3] The main altar of the church is consecrated in honour of Saint Righteous John the Russian, the Confessor of Faith.

The small wooden church is decorated with a wrought melchior iconostasis in basma technique, which blends Old Russian traditions with some elements of Byzantine style, and murals.

The parish activities include a Sunday school for different ages with an amateur theatre, handwork clubs, the Parus (Russian: "a sail") club of history and tourism for teenagers, the Vernost (Russian: "fidelity") union of Orthodox young adults,[4] a pilgrimage service, a social service, a school of Orthodox home economics, a video lecture-hall.

[5] On 8 May 2015, the day before 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, upon an initiative of parishioners a monument of The Defender of Motherland was erected beside the church.