The church is located at 140 Wolska Street in the Ulrychów area of Wola district , inside the Orthodox cemetery . It was built from 1903 to 1905 at the initiative of the Archbishop of Warsaw Hieronymus ( Ilya Tikhonovich Ekzemplarskii ) as a burial place for his son Ivan and for the future the church hierarchy as well as serving as a church for cemetery funerals and church services for the deceased . The Orthodox parish became associated with Russian rule during the interwar period where many Orthodox churches were demolished or closed . Except for the period between 1915 and 1919 , the church continued services almost uninterrupted . It was damaged during World War II , and during the Wola massacre the Germans murdered its priests , their families and the children from the Orthodox orphanage run by the parish
Wola massacre
Wola massacre
St. John Climacus's Orthodox Church, Warsaw