The German community (about 2,000 parishioners) gathered in a private house on the 3rd line of Vasilyevsky Island, where on 16 August 1842 the Church of St. Michael the Archangel was consecrated.

In connection with the consecration of the new building, the parish at the cadet school was abolished by imperial decision, and the parishioners and property were transferred to the building on Vasilievsky Island[1].The church operated an elementary school with an orphanage, as well as a widow's shelter and a society for the care of the poor.

The new owners completely rebuilt the interior, while the main worship hall was divided into three floors by ceilings.

In the revival of the parish, its rector, Sergei Preyman, played a huge role, who was at the same time an episcopal vicar and the head of the Russian probate of ELTSIR (an ethnic faction within the Church of Ingria).

[3] A stone church with 800 seats, built in 1871–1876, according to the design of the military engineer, Colonel Karl Bulmerincq.

The building is crowned with a pointed tent on a high tholobate, decorated with Gothic lancet windows and pinnacle turrets.

[5] However, the cast-iron decor of the building's facades has not been completely restored, since some of the elements were lost during Soviet times due to dilapidation and lack of repair, and some – the finials of the side facades and the cast-iron parapet – were recognized as unsafe, removed and stored until the time when funds for their restoration become available.