The Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God in Veliky Novgorod is located at the intersection of Kozmodemyanskaya and Tikhvinskaya streets, in the historic area of Nerevsky End. One hundred meters to the north is the Nikol-Kochanov Church.

In a guidebook to Novgorod published by V.P. Laskovsky in 1910, it is stated that the church dedicated to the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God stands on Tikhvinskaya Street, previously called Holopya, and was built in 1711, later reconstructed in 1819. It differs from the older Novgorod churches by its later construction and has an elongated cube shape. The church is made of stone, has one dome, and two chapels: one in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, transferred from the abolished Nikolayevskaya Church of the Razvashsky Monastery, and the other, dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian, transferred from the abolished Kozmodemyanskaya Church on Holopya Street.

A.S. Kondrashov in his 1916 description notes that the Tikhvin military church, located between Tikhvinskaya and Kozmo-Demyanskaya streets, modestly sits on a small elevation surrounded by charitable institutions. To the west, it is adjacent to a wooden military hospital building, and to the north, there are stone buildings of the Novgorod Zemstvo hospital. Architecturally, the church looks majestic, rivaling the local cathedral churches.

The church has one dome with a bell tower and two porticos, covered with sheet iron. It features two eight-pointed wooden crosses, covered with white gilded tin. Inside and outside, the building is plastered and painted with lime, while the roof, dome, and spire of the bell tower are covered with oil paint. The main three-altar temple, dedicated to the Tikhvin Mother of God, is built of stone in a rectangular shape with semicircles on the east. On the southern and northern sides, there are two porticos with four columns each, supporting pediments covered with iron.

The dimensions of the temple are: length 21.3 m, width 17.1 m, height to the roof 9.4 m. It is one-story, with a warm chapel in two levels. The lower level has 14 windows: 6 from the east, 4 from the south, and 4 from the north. The upper level has 10 windows: 5 from the south and 5 from the north. All windows have wooden frames with iron grilles. Inside, the walls are plastered and painted with oil paint, connected by a dome with four semicircular windows. The dome features the All-Seeing Eye and the holy apostles Peter and Paul, John the Baptist, and the prophet Elijah.

The church has three entrances: from the south, north, and west. The warm chapel is attached to the western wall of the main temple, measuring 1.5 m by 1.5 m and a height of 7 m, heated by four iron stoves. The stone three-tiered bell tower is connected to the warm chapel above the porch, with a base of 7.1 m by 7.1 m and a height of 25 m. Access to the bell tower is from the porch via wooden stairs. The bell tower houses 11 bells, the largest of which weighs 84 poods 16 pounds and is called the blessing bell. All the bells were cast at the factory of the Usachev brothers in Valday at different times. The factory operated from 1850 to 1930.