The Blagovescekaya Church was built originally of wood beginning on March 25/ April 6, 1900 and finished in May, 1903 in Pristan area of Harbin. It was burned down on February 23, 1918.
Rebuilt beginning in May 1918 and finished on March 22, 1919, this temple was consecrated by Bishop Innokenty in the name of the Holy Annunciation of the Theotokos. Vladika Meletius was appointed the head of the Annunciation Metochion of the Beijing Spiritual Mission in 1920.
A new Byzantine style Church was started to be built in its place on September 1/14, 1930 and completed in 1941 at 41 Police Street (now Yǒuyì Road), Dàolǐ District, Harbin.
In 1937, Protodeacon Fr. Peter Stepanovich Zadorozhny made a painting depicting the Lord of hosts in the Annunciation Church (about 7 m in length, a copy of A.T. Markov's painting in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow), as well as a half-length image of the Savior (a copy of V.M. Vasnetsov's painting in the Kiev Vladimir Cathedral ). For the iconostasis of the church he painted all 52 icons, and in the icon case in front of the pulpit (on the left), together with the artist N. Ya. Lotov, he painted the image of St. Nicholas.
The eighth rector was Fr Daniel He. The ninth and last rector was Fr Anthony Yao from Beijing. The church building was closed in 1966 and finally destroyed in 1970.
Today, the beams of what was left of the Annunciation church have been used as the interior structure of the Harbin Architectural Design Institute on Friendship Road (Yǒuyì lù) at Central Street (Zhōngyāng dàjiē), Daoli District.