The Church of the Resurrection of the Word, located at the corner of Pokrovka and Barashevsky Lane, was part of the Barashevskaya sloboda that existed here in the 16th-17th centuries. This sloboda was inhabited by barashi, royal servants responsible for transporting and setting up tents during royal outings and campaigns. There were two stone churches in the sloboda: the Resurrection Church and the Introduction Church, both of which have survived to this day.

The first church on this site is mentioned as early as the 16th century under the name of the Assumption Church. By 1620, it was already known as the Church of the Resurrection of the Word. In the mid-17th century, a stone temple was built here with an altar dedicated to Saints Simeon and Anna. It was likely small, as in the 1730s a decision was made to construct a new, larger church.

The new church was envisioned as two-storied, with a warm lower temple and a summer upper one. The walls of the lower tier were preserved from the old 17th-century building, while the upper temple and bell tower were built anew. Construction lasted intermittently for 40 years, from 1733 to 1773. In 1734, the lower temple was consecrated, after which the old bell tower was dismantled and a new one was erected. In the mid-1750s, the construction of the upper temple began, which was consecrated in 1773, marking the completion of the work. The upper temple housed the Resurrection altar with altars of St. Nicholas and Alexius, the man of God. The lower Pokrovsky altar was moved here from the dismantled church of the Pokrovskaya Tower of the White City in 1769, and an altar of Simeon and Anna was arranged here as well.

The church is designed in the Baroque style, and its building resembles a ship. The temple, located along Pokrovka Street, became the architectural dominant of the area. The two-tiered temple was topped with a wooden gilded dome in the shape of a crown. A legend connects the crown with the secret wedding of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna to Count Alexei Razumovsky, although in reality their wedding took place in the church of the estate of Perovo. According to one version, the crown on the church in Barashi was installed to signify that after the wedding, the empress passed by on Pokrovka to the Kremlin.

The lower tier of the church is modestly decorated, with simple frames and pilasters, while the second tier is more ornate, featuring elegant Baroque frames and paired Corinthian order pilasters. The bell tower was octagonal, with its lower tier adorned with a portico of Doric columns, through which there was an entrance to the temple. Initially, there were stairs on the northern and southern sides of the church leading to the upper temple, but they were dismantled in the early 19th century.

The name of the architect who designed the Resurrection Church is unknown, but it is believed to have been Ivan Mordvinov.

The church was closed in 1929, and in 1930 it was decapitated; the gilded crown did not survive, and the bell tower was dismantled to the first tier. The interior decoration was lost. The building was handed over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and adapted for administrative needs. The church has still not been returned to the faithful, and its restoration is not planned in the near future.