Bolshaya Koniushennaya Street, 6a
1803 -05. Architect  G. Paulson

In 1733 a site for constructing a praying house 
for the Swedes and Finns living in Petersburg 
was allotted in Bolshaya Koniushennaya Street to 
the order of Tsarina Anna Ioannovna.In 1803-5 a 
new stone Finnish church was built on the site 
called the St.Maria Church. In the late 19th 
century  the church underwent reconstruction 
involving changing the interior spacing and 
partial remodelling the facades (architects 
K.Anderson, later - L.Benois). In the 1920s 
interior reconstruction was undertaken, that 
divided the whole volume into three stories.