Church of the Kazan Mother of God is located in the village of Vyritsa Gatchina district. His solemn laying on July 14, 1913 (Old Style), 6 July 1914, the Bishop of Gdov Veniamin consecrated the church.

Making these places the church is due to the fact that in 1910 near the station Vyritsa organized holiday village "Princely Valley", whose owner was Prince Wittgenstein GF Summer resort with an amazing pine forest and beautiful Devonian soils quickly built up and populated. The new settlement was needed temple. In August 1912, in the village of a general meeting of the residents on the organization of the church. At the meeting it was decided to build a church to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. It was started subscription to the purchase of land, which is allocated for the construction of Prince Wittgenstein. To buy land for construction, the owner was needed who could get it into the public cost. Among the summer residents of such a person could be found. Then it was decided to establish the Brotherhood in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, whose charter was approved in 1912 by Metropolitan Vladimir Petersburg.

Church of the Kazan Mother of God, consecrated in the beginning of the First World War, in Vyritsa passed all the hardships and trials that fell to the Russian Orthodox Church. Here in 1929, after a closed Alexander Nevsky Lavra, he moved Father Seraphim, confessor of the monastery. Prayers for. Seraphim helped the church survive in difficult times and supported believers. On the eve of the Russo-Finnish War in 1938 the church was closed. Its rooms housed society "OSOAVIAKHIM." Fortunately, church decorations, icons, church utensils other ministers of the house, and the parishioners managed to save. It is also able to save the iconostasis, which was made in 1898 by brothers Brusnitsyn.

During the Great Patriotic War Vyritsa it was occupied by the Germans. Vyritsa are not significant strategic object was to the rear of the Germans. It housed a regiment consisting of Romanian soldiers in the majority of the Orthodox faith. Taking advantage of this, the efforts of the clergy of the Orthodox Church, which remained in the occupied territory, the locals were allowed to open in the German command Vyritsa Church of Our Lady of Kazan. The temple was opened at the beginning of the war. I do not cover it, and after the war.

During the reign of NS Khrushchev again threatened the closure of the church in Vyritsa. Commissioner KGB Gatchina district were ordered to close the church. In defense of his temple stood villagers and parishioners: they were composed of a petition is not to close the church in the village. The believers went to this document, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow. They were able to overturn the decision to close the church in honor of Our Lady of Kazan in Vyritsa.

Today, the church kept pictures of all those who are engaged in those years, a holy deed. Among them: I. Orlov, Black AF, AI Rusakov Everything that concerns the history of the church, carefully stored in it. There are the names of all priests who served here. List opens its first rector Archpriest of. Porphyry Desnitsky. Also on this list and the Archpriest Fr Nikolai Fomichev, who later became Archbishop Nikon Perm. In honor of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Church was organized here stand, which tells about the history and the creator of the temple.

The current rector of Our Lady of Kazan, about. Alexis and his wife and faithful assistant mother Lyudmila and all parishioners are constantly taking care of his church. Temple restored, renovated and updated. Among the congregation many young people. Most of the choir consists of young singers. This is a clear indication that, after going through a lot of suffering, persecution and calamity befell her, the Russian Orthodox Church is reborn, like a phoenix.