Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Russian: Церковь Собора Пресвятой Богородицы), better known as Nativity or Stroganov is a Russian Orthodox church, located at the Rozhdestvenskaya Street in Nizhny Novgorod.
The burnt down church was restored by the wife of merchant Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov - Maria Yakovlevna.
In the Soviet era, a decision was made to destroy the church, but the rector of the church Sergius Veisov (1915-1934) collected historical documents and photographs, read several lectures on the cultural significance of the Stroganov Baroque, and preserved this temple.
The church is two-level: at the top there is a three-apsidal altar, a prayer hall, a refectory and a porch.
On the stone slabs there are Slavic letters that divide the circle into 17 parts, according to the Old Russian calculation of time.