The famous Church of the myrrh-bearing women is located at Yaroslavl's Court in the city of Veliky Novgorod. The Church was built in 1510 on the site of an earlier burnt in 1508, a simple wooden Church of the same name. Before there was built a wooden Church here was located a stone Church built in 1445 and therefore was even more ancient building. The Builder of the Church of the myrrh-bearers became John Cheese, who was the ancestor of the large and well-known names Moscow merchants, whose members for several generations mentioned in Moscow and Novgorod Chronicles of the 16th century.

The location of the Church in a message on its construction is defined as "the Yaroslavl courtyard". In addition, it is known that the Church was located near the "Sour patio", i.e. in that house, where he lived himself Ivan Cheese. She was the family Church of the famous family Made, thus, becoming the first unique architectural monument, which appeared in Veliky Novgorod after it was annexed to Moscow. During the year 1536, was built a chapel of St. Matthew the Evangelist. Soon to the main building in 1539 was added to warm the chapel of the visitation, which was soon lit. In the late 16th century in the warehouses of the Church there was some part of the Treasury of Tsar Ivan the terrible. In 1745 the Church of the myrrh-bearing women was passed into the hands of the Yuriev monastery. At the request of Archimandrite Photius in 1832, which was the chief Abbot of the St. George monastery, the Church, together with farmstead wrote Sirkova monastery.

The famous Church is divided by powerful arches on three floors. The first floor carries the function of the basement and is situated just below ground level. The bottom two floors were extensive and convenient storage facilities. The main volume of the four pillars of the temple is in the form of a cube and divided by a wall from the Western part of the temple. The top floor of the temple was split a special overlap into two tiers; the upper tier had two aisles.

After was made the last restoration, the roof covering was made out of a ploughshare, and it is this feature that has become the hallmark of all Novgorod buildings. It was found that all attached to the main building of the extension appeared much later and in a completely different time. Since the advent of the Church adjacent to it was a wooden porch.

At the moment in the Church is the regional Children's cultural centre; it hosts numerous exhibitions, folklore programs, and music concerts.