The Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul was built in 1694. It stands near the south wall of the Convent of the Intercession. This Church is one of the most majestic specimens of late Suzdalian architecture, possibly due to the influence of the neighbouring Convent which ordered the Church to be built.
It looks more like a Cathedral than an ordinary parish Church. The broad, powerful main body of the Church have a vaulted ceiling, and roof with five domes. The outer walls are adorned at the top with a row of horseshoe-shaped kokoshniks, and divided in the traditional way by narrow pilaster strips between which there are windows with elaborate surrounds.
The Church was formerly adjoined on its west side by a single-storey Church porch with a deeply recessed portal, and on its north side by a chapel. On the Southwest corner there was a tent-shaped bell-tower of majestic, austere appearance. Two sides of its square base adjoined the Church porch while the north and west outer walls had arches supported by a short round corner pillar. This motif was suggested by similar arched entrances with corner pillars in the Cathedral of the Convent of the Intercession.
The picturesque asymmetrical composition of the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Church possibly influenced the design of the Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian Church by the Kamenka.
Its neighbouring heated Church was built in 1712. One of its altars was donated by Peter the Great's first wife, Yevdokiya Lopukhina, banished to the Convent of the Intercession, in memory of her dead son Alexey, who had opposed Peter's reforms.