This ancient church was located in the Kremlin, on the right side of Ivanovsky Concourse. In ancient times, there was a male Simeon Monastery here, founded by an unknown person at an unknown time. It is mentioned in the Hundred Charter of 1621 and 1622. The monastery had the church of Simeon Stylites, but in 1715 it burned down in a large fire along with the monastery. In 1743, a stone church was built on this site, consecrated under Bishop Dmitry Sechenov. Funds for the restoration were collected with the participation of the governor, Prince D.A. Drutsky. Since 1769, the Simeon parish church served as a temple for the Nizhny Novgorod garrison battalion. The old wooden church had an altar in honor of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos. In 1821, the commander of the garrison battalion arranged a right altar in the refectory in honor of the Entry of the Most Holy Virgin into the Temple. From 1826 to 1836, the church was under the jurisdiction of the military department, and then, by the decree of Nicholas I, it was transferred to the Old Believers instead of the Holy Spirit Church at the Governor's House. The temple had three altars: the main one in honor of the Passion Icon of the Mother of God, and the altars in the refectory, in memory of the old monastery church, were dedicated to the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos and St. Simeon Stylites. The main shrine of the temple was considered to be an exact copy of the ancient icon of the Passion of the Mother of God, known for its miracles in the village of Palets in the Nizhny Novgorod district. The copy of the Palets icon was also venerated as miraculous, and by the decision of the Synod in 1839, it was alternately kept in the cathedral, the Simeon Church, and the Assumption Cathedral. The clergy of the church included Priest Ivan Glazkov, Deacon Ivan Yastrebtsov, and Psalter Michael Veretennikov. By 1914, the parishioners of the Simeon Church were residents of 102 houses in Nizhny Novgorod and surrounding villages, totaling 235 men and 305 women, mostly peasants. After the revolution, according to the testimony of the rector of the Mikhail-Archangel Cathedral, Alexei Nekrasov, the Kremlin churches were closed for worship from mid-August 1918. By January 1924, the church was listed among the closed ones, and the community was declared "liquidated." According to the circular of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee dated January 7, 1924, items of cult artistic and historical value from the closed church were transferred to the Nizhny Novgorod Museum. The church itself was proposed to be removed from the register as it did not represent architectural interest. By June 1, 1928, the Simeon Church was dismantled to free up space for new construction. Currently, its reconstruction is underway.