At the site of this building in honor of the eldest daughter of Peter I – Anna Petrovna church was built of wood in the name of Archangel Michael when it decayed, Queen Anna Ivanovna ordered to lay a new stone.. Construction was carried out in an extremely short period of time. On the bell tower of the building height of 47 meters placed a clock with the battle lost at the end of 1731, 18 veka.V architect M. Zemtsov executed drawing, and in 1734 the temple was mainly otdelan.27 January 1734 the church was solemnly consecrated at Empress Anna Ivanovna. The main altar of the church was consecrated in the name of the Holy Righteous Simeon and Anna the Prophetess, and the side chapels – in the name of Archangel Michael and Ephraim Sirina.Pavel I awarded the Order of St. Anne’s Church, the fortified wooden sign above the main entrance. To the right of the altar was arranged a special place for the Emperor, decorated with crimson velvet. The church became a temple of the Order’s Russian Knights of the Order of St. Anne. In 1802, she was transferred from the court to the Diocesan Office, so that the place of the Emperor and the Order was dropped. A reminder of the past significance of the temple for a long time remained a royal crown, a fixed instead of the ball on the dome under krestom.V 1938 on the orders of the Bolsheviks it was closed, the interior looted, and the room was converted into a warehouse, and only in 1991, the church was once again returned to the congregation.