In 1881 this place was built a wooden chapel in memory of Alexander II - the Russian Emperor. Blessing of the foundation stone was carried out by Archbishop Tauride and Simferopol Gury (Karpov).

The project was fully completed in 1881 in the month of March. The structure was in the style of ancient northern chopped architecture, with carved wooden elements, decorated with rich ornaments, with an iron cross-shaped tent roof. Entrance to the chapel in the side of the embankment, and on the other three sides of the walls are decorated with barred windows in the shape of a cross. Crowned chapel dome - the onion on a low drum. The construction of the chapel in 1881, 23 of July. Simultaneously with the construction of the church - a building committee was ordered and purchased a number of images. Icons were manufactured in special workshops of Russian iconic. Some of them were presented as a gift. Originally a chapel located on wooden stilts, but as a result of numerous destructions as a result of the impact of the sea under it was placed the foundation stone. Enclosing structure carved wooden fence.

Unfortunately, once it built the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, interest in this chapel is not extinguished by the parishioners who attended it actively. Serves Chapel of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. More than half a century, the chapel stood on the waterfront, but it was closed in 1932 and then demolished as a waste facility.

In 2006, July 17, during the celebration of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Royal Martyrs of memory at the Yalta embankment was carried out the consecration of a new space for the construction of the chapel of the Cathedral of New Martyrs and Confessors Russian. A 26 September 2009 had built a chapel was consecrated Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimean Lazarus.