Peter and Paul Church is located in the village of Somino Boksitogorsky area. The church is also called Ierosominskoy, as it is for 3000 kilometers from Jerusalem holy sites and it is on the same parallel. The church is the spiritual relationship with St. Petersburg, as is a smaller copy of the Peter and Paul Cathedral.

The history of this village is closely linked with the development of the Tikhvin water system. The heyday of the village is in the middle of the 19th century. Then the village was called the marina Somin. Hence merchants traded with the cities of the Volga region. Population Somino engaged in carting and trade.

Pier Village in the period of active development of the Tikhvin water system has become one of the most important points. In this place was built riverboats, and sominki Tikhvinka, unloaded and loaded barges arriving. While navigating this marina rushed porters, boatmen boatmen. Permanent residents here were few during the summer period from the surrounding area attracts thousands of people.

Somino growing rapidly. In the late 19th - early 20th centuries, the village had four schools: Women's parish, a district, a second-class parish with exemplary school with her. The village was the center of the parish, therefore, it housed the local court, a district station, credit society, a district hospital, a post office, a consumer society. In Somino fairs were held: in honor of the holy martyr Blasius, Bishop Sevaystiyskogo (in his honor in the village was the old chapel) - in February; in honor of Peter and Paul - in June, to putting up.

In 1820, local residents filed a petition to the Emperor Alexander I of the construction of the village church in honor of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. These apostles were chosen by chance patrons. The well-being of the village is closely been associated with the development and construction of the Tikhvin water system. It was created on the initiative of Peter I, and the project began to be carried out during the reign of Paul I. In memory of the works of these two emperors and the temple dedicated to the Apostles Peter and Paul.

In 1823, Alexander I visited the Novgorod province. They were passing through and Somino. The locals did not fail to remind of his petition. And permission to build a church there. The issue of the construction of the temple was entrusted with AA Arakche'ev. The church was built on the people's money, fees from ships that passed through the water system, donations of merchants. The temple was built in the period from 1839 to 1844 years. The cathedral was consecrated in 1841. Other local churches Peter and Paul Cathedral is rich finishes and features majestic.

In 1930 the church was closed. In 1937 the bell tower dropped a cross, spire with an angel and a bell. Since 1948, the temple was again operational.

June 7, 2007 on the spire of one of the domes again established an angel (with a small copy of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg). The church has a chapel in honor of Exaltation in the name of the Holy Martyr Saint Blaise.