One of the most remarkable buildings in Kolpino. It is located on the picturesque bank of the Izhora River, with Commune Garden adjacent to its western side.

The building was constructed between 1897 and 1901 at the expense of Anikita Isidorovich Polotnov, a merchant. A project for the building, which became both a church and a parish school, was prepared by Mikhail Andreevich Andreev. The red brick building attracts with its unusual architectural shape. According to the plan, there is no apse and central dome, and the cross is installed on a “kokoshnik”, a superstructure above the roof of the eastern facade.

From 1946 to 1991, the “Zarya” cinema was located in the temple building, which caused significant damage to its interior. In the 1990s, the building was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Ascension Church gradually began to return to its former appearance. The bell tower designed by Vasily Ivanovich Zozulya, an artist from Kolpino and dismantled in the 1920s was re-erected. The “kokoshnik” and “pedestals” on the roof, lost in Soviet times, as well as the eight-pointed cross were restored. Currently, the church walls are decorated with ancient and modern icons, miraculous relics of saints are available to pilgrims. Sunday school is also open again, and choir performances and religious processions are held regularly.