On January 28, 2016, a contract was signed with Rosimushchestvo for the transfer of the Vladimir Church to the Russian Orthodox Church. The next day, the keys to the church were handed over to the rector, Father Sergey Vlasov. On February 4, parishioners organized a cleaning of the altar area of the church, and on February 8, the first service, a thanksgiving prayer, took place within the walls of the Vladimir Church.

The church, located on the present-day Oktyabrskaya Street, was named after the main altar in honor of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. The church holiday is celebrated on September 8 according to the new style. On this day in 1395, during the invasion of Tamerlane, by the order of Vasily I, the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God was transferred to Moscow for the protection of the city. A monastery was founded at the meeting place of the icon in Moscow.

The exact date of the founding of the Vladimir Church in Vologda is unknown. An inscription on the church icon of the Vladimir Mother of God, which is now kept in the Vologda Museum-Reserve, indicates the existence of a wooden church as early as 1549. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Vladimir parish was considered one of the wealthiest in the city. The stone cold church of the Meeting of the Vladimir Mother of God began construction in 1759 and was consecrated in 1764.

According to local historian Evgeny Starikov, the cold Vladimir Church was closed on December 22, 1929, at the initiative of the workers of the Main Railway Workshops, now known as VRZ. In the 1930s, the building of the former church was used for a button and comb factory. Until recently, it housed a glass cutting workshop.

In 1960, the ensemble of Vladimir churches was recognized as a cultural heritage site of federal significance. In the late 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, restoration work was carried out on the Vladimir Church, during which the lost bulbs and crosses from the years of the struggle against religion were restored.