The Marienburg (Gatchina-1) Leningrad Region, Circular Street, at number 7 is operating Orthodox Church of the Holy Virgin. The reason for the construction of the church in Marienburg is that in mid-1838 at the request of the imperial family were moved here Jaeger settlement service. Almost one hour had filed a petition to his Majesty with the request to establish a new church in the new Jaeger Slobodka.

Laying the first stone of the building of the temple made May 25, 1886, Protopresbyter John Yanyshev, who was the personal confessor of members of the imperial family. The project has developed a church Petersburg architect David Ivanovich Grimm, who was also a researcher interested in the history of Old Russian and Byzantine architecture. By the way, it is the architect Grimm vilikoknyazheskoy tombs of Peter and Paul Fortress. Working drawings were made by Academician IA Stefanitsem. The project was approved by Emperor Alexander III.

Two years later, in November 1888 the church was consecrated by John Yanysheva in the presence of Emperor Alexander III. It is noteworthy that the consecration ceremony took place a month later, after the royal family miraculously escaped during a train derailment near the town of Kharkov.

Until March 15, 1918 Church of the Intercession it was under the jurisdiction of the court office. Then, when, after the events of February the imperial hunting abolished, the church passed to the diocesan clergy.

In 1933, the decision of the Central Executive Committee Intercession Church in Jaeger Slabodka closed, and all the interior was either looted or destroyed.

During the German occupation during World War II in the Church of the Intercession, starting in October 1941, it was services, which led to the congregation until 1942 priest John Pirkin and then, until his arrest in 1944, the priest Vasily Apraksin. At the same time it established a temporary plywood iconostasis, which was replaced by the new, donated the temple of the Leningrad Theological Seminary, only in 1952

In 1952, the church held a repair, and in the same year the church was consecrated solemnly. In 1957 a new church was enclosed with a fence. In 1959 - there was a church house made of wood.

Behind the altar of the Church of the Intercession found eternal rest Archpriest Vasily Levitsky, Archpriest Peter Belavsky, former abbot of the temple, and Archpriest John Transfiguration.

The architectural solution of the Intercession Church creates a harmonious ensemble with the buildings of the former Jaeger settlement. Once crowned with five gilded church, and now blue, onion dome, topped with a cross. Two gilded onion dome crowned with a belfry, located at the entrance to the church. The decorative elements of the facade are clearly visible motifs of ancient architecture.

The main decoration of the temple served as the heart and three-tiered carved iconostasis, which was made of oak by masters of the St. Petersburg factory E. Schrader.