The church marks the corner of present-day Komsomolsky Prospect and Leo Tolstoy Street, two blocks outside the Garden Ring.

The church yard occupies a whole block between Leo Tolstoy and Timur Frunze streets and includes a row of small old houses.

It belongs to a numerous class of bonfire temples (Russian: огненные храмы) – church buildings without three internal load-bearing columns, crowned with layers of small circular kokoshnik-type gables.

Small decorative columns "supporting" the lower level gables are an indicator of a Western influence in a typically vernacular building.

Father Pavel Lepekhin served here one of the longest continuous tenures in the 20th century Orthodoxy – from 1915 to 1960.