St Nicholas' Church at Zvonary gets its name as it is located in what was once Zvonarskaya Sloboda, which was a special settlement for bell-ringers ('zvonary') of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in the Kremlin. Although there has been a church here since the times of Ivan the Terrible, the current version dates from between 1780 and 1781. It was built in the baroque style according to a design by the architect Karl Blank. In the 1930s the church was closed and subsequently used as a storehouse. It was reopened in 1994 as a podvorie (embassy church) of the Pühtitsa Convent in Estonia.

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