The empire-style Joy of All Who Sorrow Church on Bolshaya Ordynka was built between 1834 and 1836 according to a plan by the famous architect Osip Bove, featuring a large cylindrical dome. However there has been a church here since at least the 15th century. In 1933 the church was closed and later used by the State Tretyakov Gallery as a storeroom. The church was reopened not long afterwards in 1948 and a church choir was established in the 1950s.