The Russian Orthodox Chapel of the Resurrection of Christ was built in Hohenzollern Castle in the second half of the 20th century at the initiative of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia for his wife, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna, Princess of Prussia.

Kira Kirillovna was born on May 9, 1909, in Paris and passed away on September 8, 1967, in Saint-Briac. She was the youngest daughter of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, who proclaimed himself Emperor of All Russia in 1924, and Grand Duchess Victoria Fyodorovna, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Great Britain. Kira was married to the head of the German imperial house.

After the decree of Nicholas II, she was included in the Russian Imperial House with the title of Princess of Imperial Blood, retaining all rights, including the right to inherit the throne. Emperor Nicholas II became her godfather. When her father, Cyril Vladimirovich, declared himself Emperor Cyril I in 1924, Kira received the title of Grand Duchess from him.

In 1938, Kira Kirillovna married Prince Louis Ferdinand in Potsdam. The ceremony was attended by her father, Cyril Vladimirovich, and the groom's grandfather, former Emperor of Germany Wilhelm II. The first was a great-great-grandson through Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, wife of Emperor Nicholas I, and the second, a great-grandson of King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III.

Today, their grandson, Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia, born in 1976, heads the German Imperial and Prussian Royal House. He is the son of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (the Younger) and Countess Donata Castel-Rüdenhausen.