[2][3] The Catholic parish of Gatchina decided to build a church dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 1906.

The project was assigned to Lev Chichko, and construction continued until 1911 with the collaboration of Leonid Kharlamov and Alexander Baryshnikov.

The Gothic revival church was consecrated by Bishop Jan Cieplak the November 13, 1911, and depended on the parish of St. Catherine in St. Petersburg.

Christopher Lawrence Zugger, "In 1920 at Gatchina (outside Petrograd), Bolsheviks demanded that the priest give up the keys to the Tabernacle, so they could gain access to, 'the greatest treasure of the Catholics'.

"[4] It closed in 1937 during Joseph Stalin's Great Terror, and this was confirmed in 1939, to become a bakery and after the war, during which the building was badly damaged, into a garage.