 The structure graces Zanarie, a town district located on the right bank of the Nara River.The architect was Roman Klein, also responsible for the building of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.The altars in the side-chapels were dedicated to the Znamenie icon of the Theotokos and to the Three Fathers of the Church (John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, and Gregory Nazianzus).