The Church of Peter and Paul in Kozhevniki, built in 1406, is a single-domed four-pillar temple located on Zverinaya Street in Veliky Novgorod, near the southern part of the Zverin Monastery.

The Neretsky end was not surrounded by an earthen rampart that protected the Sofia side of Novgorod. To the north of the rampart lies a group of ancient architectural monuments that chroniclers associate with the Neretsky end, sometimes referring to it as Kozhevniky.

Beyond the rampart, at the beginning of Zverinaya Street leading to the Zverin Monastery, stands the Church of Peter and Paul in Kozhevniki, one of the finest buildings in Novgorod, erected in 1406. This temple is among the most mature and artistically complete monuments of Novgorod architecture of the 15th century. The main structure is built of large limestone blocks, while the decorative elements adorning the upper parts of the facades are made of brick with great artistic taste.

The pilasters, arches, and dome of the church are also made of brick. The architectural appearance of the building continues the traditions of Novgorod architecture from the second half of the 14th century. The church has a cubic shape with a single-domed completion. The facades are decorated with three-lobed completions featuring multi-lobed creeping arches.

Novgorod architects of the 13th-15th centuries used semi-vaults in the corner sections, and in the others, box vaults, except for the center, over which the dome was erected. This combination of vaults created the basis for the three-lobed completions.

The facades of the church are characterized by strict and proportional forms, adorned with concise brick ornamentation, motifs of which can be found in earlier Novgorod monuments from the mid-14th century. Among them are triangular recesses, a runner, round and pentagonal niches, rosettes, a curb, an arcature frieze, and relief crosses. On the southern facade, a composition of three windows and two niches, crowned with a five-lobed eyebrow, has been preserved.

The apse is decorated with vertical ties-rollers connected by semicircular arches. The interior space of the church reflects traditional solutions from the second half of the 14th century. A distinctive feature of the interior is the entrance to the loft, designed as a separate stone staircase in the northwest part of the temple, rather than within the thickness of the western wall, as was customary in Novgorod churches from the late 12th to the 15th century. This technique repeats a solution previously used in the Church of Fyodor Stratilat on Ruchyu, where the loft represented a large open space on a stone vault.

The Church of Peter and Paul, located on the banks of the Volkhov River, faces its eastern facade towards the river. Its silhouette, proportions, and location make it an important element of the "eastern facade" of the Sofia side of Novgorod, visible from the opposite bank of the Volkhov. Heavily damaged during the fascist occupation, the church was restored in 1959 to its original forms. To the north of the rampart, at the beginning of the former Zverinaya Street Bredova, leading to the Zverin Monastery, is the Church of Peter and Paul in Kozhevniki. According to clerical records, its original construction dates back to 1227.