Church of St. John the Warrior

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Church of St. John the Warrior on Yakimanka Street (Russian: Церковь Иоанна Воина, Tserkov' Ivana Voina) is a diminutive church in Moscow (Zamoskvorechye) erected between 1709 and 1717, during the reign of Peter the Great, on the site of a submerged temple to commemorate the victory at Poltava.

Despite its name, the church stands on Bolshaya Polyanka street. The church curiously combines elements of the Muscovite baroque style with the Ukrainian baroque and European influences prevalent in Russian architecture of Peter's reign. After the Russian Revolution, numerous icons and relics from the churches destroyed by the Communists have been piled in the Church of St. John.