The church is first mentioned in 1325. It was restored in 1843, and the tower was restored in 1862. The spire of the tower roof with four corner turrets was made in the same period. The tower stands above the nave; its entrance is pointed. The whole structure is 35 metres long. The tower walls are 1.5 metres thick. On the south, in the middle bay, there is a porch. In the second bay of the chancel a sacristy was added on the north. All the windows and doors are pointed. Pulpit of 1704. Organ of 1883 (1882 according to A. Boetticher). Two bells.
After the war the church was intact and was used as a club. Then, after the club closed, it was set on fire, and in the 1970s officers took it apart for bricks for their own garages.
Participants in the volunteer clean-up held on 5 December 2020 by the Ruin Keepers, by the walls of Powunden Church.
After an accident in which a brick block fell on the foot of one of the officers while the church was being taken apart, dismantling the church was banned by garrison order.
Today the church looks rather dismal. The tower and the nave with the chancel are roofless, the walls are broken through, and the porch and sacristy have not survived.
The school building south of the church has survived and was used for its original purpose.
Present-day photo by Yulia Taratynova.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
