By the mid-19th century, the wooden Church of the Nativity of the Virgin at the cemetery no longer met the needs of the believers in the northwestern part of Semyonovo. The parishioners decided to build a large stone church here. The initiator of the construction was Archpriest Ioann Ioannovich Raikovsky of the Ascension Cathedral. Thanks to his efforts, additional land next to the cemetery was allocated for the construction of the church by the city council of Semyonovo. Together with the city head I.A. Bochkarev, an act of inspection of the site for the new church was drawn up on August 17, 1856.
In March 1859, Bishop Antoniy blessed the construction of the church in the name of All Saints. By 1863, the brickwork of the church was completed, except for a small part of the bell tower. The church was built according to a design close to the standard, in the Russian-Byzantine style. The temple was a single-domed square with a refectory connected to the bell tower under an onion dome. In 1864, finishing works began inside the temple. From May of that year, chapels were arranged in the refectory: the right in honor of the righteous prince Alexander Nevsky and the left in honor of Saint George the Great Martyr. The consecration of the right chapel took place on October 3, 1866, and the left on June 9, 1867. In 1867, the stone bell tower was completed. In 1875, the temple was adorned with icons and an iconostasis was installed. In 1883, the church suffered from a fire. The stone fence around the church and cemetery was built in 1904.
In the 1930s, the temple was closed, and its domes were destroyed. For a long time, the building was used as a water pumping station. In the early 1990s, the church was returned to the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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