 On May 18, 1995, the Apostolic Administrator of Kazakhstan, Bishop Jan Paul Lenga, gave his blessing to the construction of a new church.Construction began on November 2, 1995, and on May 4, 1997, the first stone of the temple was blessed.On June 27, 1999, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne and envoy of Pope John Paul II, consecrated the church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.