In Marienburg (Gatchina-1) Leningrad region, on Circular street, building number 7 is a functioning Orthodox Church of the Holy virgin. The reason for the construction of the temple in Marienburg is that in the middle of 1838 at the request of the Imperial family were moved here service Chasseur settlement. Almost one hour had filed the petition to the name with a request to establish a new Church in a new Chasseur Slobodka.

The laying of the first stone of the building of the temple was done on 25 may 1886 Protopresbyter John anyhew, who was the personal Confessor of members of the Imperial family. The project has developed a Church Petersburg architect David Ivanovich Grimm, who was also a researcher interested in the history of old Russian and Byzantine architecture. By the way, that Grimm was the architect velikoknyazheskoy tomb in the Peter and Paul fortress. Working drawings were made by academician I. A. Stepanian. The project was approved by the Emperor Alexander III.

Two years later, in 1888, the Church was consecrated by John Anysim in the presence of Emperor Alexander III. It is noteworthy that the ceremony of consecration took place a month later, after the Imperial family was miraculously saved at the time of the train crash near the city of Kharkov.

Until March 15, 1918 Church of the Intercession was under the jurisdiction of the court Department. Then, when, after the events of February Imperial hunting was abolished, the Church handed over to the diocesan clergy.

In 1933, a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the Church of the intercession Chasseur in the village was closed and all the interior was either looted or destroyed.

During the German occupation during the great Patriotic war in the Church of the Intercession, beginning in October 1941, there were worship services, which for the flock led until 1942 priest John Perkin and then, until his arrest in 1944, priest Vasily Apraxin. At the same time there is established a temporary iconostasis made of plywood, which was replaced with a new, donated to the temple of the Leningrad theological Seminary, until the 1952

In 1952 the Church was repaired, and in the same year the Church was solemnly consecrated. In 1957 the Church was enclosed with a new fence. In 1959 – there was a Church house made of wood.

Behind the altar of the Church of intercession found peace Archpriest Vasily Levitsky, Archpriest Peter Bielawski, former rectors of this Church and Archpriest John Transfiguration.

The architectural solution of the intercession Church creates a harmonious ensemble of buildings of the former Huntsman of the settlement. Crowned by the Church five once gilded, now blue, domes-onions, topped with crosses. Two gilded onion domes crowned with a belfry above the entrance to the Church. The decorative elements of the facade are clearly visible motives of old Russian architecture.

The main decoration and the heart of the temple served as a three-tier carved iconostasis which was made of oak masters of the Petersburg factory of E. Schrader.