This church was built between 1775 and 1790 and is dedicated to both St Nicholas and Elijah the Prophet. In Russian it is often called St Nicholas on the Sand (Nikola na Peskakh) as the ground was said to be sandy here. In form it comprised a standard five-domed structure attached to a bell tower. In the 1930s the church was closed and used as a sewing workshop. It was eventually returned to the Orthodox Church in 1995 and subsequently restored.