The St John the Apostle's Church gets its additional name of under the Elm ("pod vyazom") due to the fact that a great elm tree stood here up to the time of Catherine the Great. The current church was built between 1825 and 1837 in the empire style, completed with a round tower and a façade decorated with columns. The church was closed in 1925 and subsequently used to house the Moscow History Museum. The building was only returned to the Orthodox Church in 2011.

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