This Russian Orthodox Church building has occupied this site on Clarence Road, Longsight, since 2003 but its congregation has been meeting here since 1953.  The original members of the congregation were displaced persons who found themselves in camps in Austria after World War II.  Not wishing to return to live under Soviet rule a group of them found refuge in the UK and led by their first rector, Father Nikolai Popov, they established a church in a terraced house at 64 Clarence Road.  In 1998 it and two other houses in the terrace were scheduled for demolition.  The remaining house can be seen in the right of the image below.

In the years that followed the congregation continued to meet in temporary accommodation until the funds were raised to build a new church on the site of 64 Clarence Road.  Work began in December of 2002 and it was substantially complete by October of 2003.