In 1810, the Central Administration for Foreign Faiths (Главное управление иностранных исповеданий) was established, and from 1817, it became part of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Russian Empire.

On May 2, 1878, members of the Baku Evangelical Lutheran Council, including Lemkul, Meyer, Eichler, Lentz, Zinne, and others, submitted a petition to the City Administration requesting land for constructing a house of worship and a primary school.

[4] In February 1879, the Lutheran Church Council submitted another request to the City Administration, asking for land at the initially proposed location.

If that was not possible, they requested a plot on the eastern side of the Tatar Cemetery, opposite the prison grounds (currently the site of the "Monolit" building).

According to Baku’s 1878 master plan, the area along the fortress walls was designated for artisan workshops, while the square opposite the prison was intended for commercial purposes.

On April 25, 1885, Karl Ludwig Limmerman, the chairman of the Baku Evangelical Lutheran Community Church Council, submitted another request.

[7] On November 30, 1885, the Baku City Duma approved the allocation of a vacant plot near Masumov’s factory and Vermishev’s mill on Telefonnaya Street for the construction of a church and school.

[9] The church was built with donations from believers, including the Nobel brothers, and the total construction cost amounted to 70,000 rubles.

[9] On June 24, 1898, in a ceremony attended by a large crowd, a gold-plated cross weighing 13 poods (approximately 213 kilograms) was raised onto the church tower.

The letter requested permission to preserve the German church in Baku and allow worshippers to continue praying for Stalin's well-being for the remainder of their lives.

Community activists, including Paul Leopoldovich Hamberg, Rudolf Rudolfovich Wagner, Christian Kasparovich Dittscheul, John Christianovich Winter, Ida Bernhardovna Temnikova, Maria Augustovna Friedrichson, Amaliya Andreyevna Karpenko, and Dietrich Cornelievich Tissen, were executed by gunfire.

Sabsay requested a large space with a high ceiling to continue working on the statue and asked for the church building to be allocated as his workshop.

[12] In the following years, by a decision of the Cabinet of Ministers, the building was renamed the Chamber and Organ Music Hall and was placed under the administration of the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Society.

However, for Baku, which had become one of the major industrial centers of the Caucasus and the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the church in Yelenendorf could not serve as an architectural model.

[17] The high quality of the construction and decoration of the church made it stand out, even when integrated into a unified complex with auxiliary buildings, distinguishing it from the surrounding ordinary structures.

Architectural researcher Shamil Fatullayev-Fiqarov notes that the church's location, set significantly behind the red line of 28 May Street (formerly Telefonnaya), can be considered fortunate.

"[18] Unlike other public and civic buildings located along the narrow streets of Baku with limited architectural panoramas, the church stands out as the only religious structure where the scale and spatial atmosphere are distinctly felt.

The harmonious proportions, the smooth division of the main construction parts, and the avoidance of excessive Gothic decorative elements result in a highly expressive volumetric form.

[19] Shamil Fatullayev notes that compared to the Saint Elizabeth Church in Marburg, the tasks faced by Adolf Eyxler in terms of both the building’s scale and its volumetric-spatial composition were simpler.

The forms of Gothic architecture, characterized by pointed arches, find their place in a dynamic sequence, accentuated by the octagonal tower.

[19] The overall volume and spatial composition of the church allowed architect Adolf Eyxler to bring a fresh perspective to Gothic Revival architecture.