diff --git a/packages/core/src/render3/node_manipulation.ts b/packages/core/src/render3/node_manipulation.ts
index 4fb1b6ce05..d7faf85de5 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/render3/node_manipulation.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/render3/node_manipulation.ts
@@ -242,14 +242,17 @@ export function destroyViewTree(rootView: LView): void {
   while (viewOrContainer) {
     let next: LView|LContainer|null = null;
 
-    if (viewOrContainer.length >= HEADER_OFFSET) {
+    if (isLContainer(viewOrContainer)) {
+      // If container, traverse down to its first LView.
+      const container = viewOrContainer as LContainer;
+      const viewsInContainer = container[VIEWS];
+      if (viewsInContainer.length) {
+        next = viewsInContainer[0];
+      }
+    } else {
       // If LView, traverse down to child.
       const view = viewOrContainer as LView;
       if (view[TVIEW].childIndex > -1) next = getLViewChild(view);
-    } else {
-      // If container, traverse down to its first LView.
-      const container = viewOrContainer as LContainer;
-      if (container[VIEWS].length) next = container[VIEWS][0];
     }
 
     if (next == null) {
@@ -258,6 +261,15 @@ export function destroyViewTree(rootView: LView): void {
       while (viewOrContainer && !viewOrContainer ![NEXT] && viewOrContainer !== rootView) {
         cleanUpView(viewOrContainer);
         viewOrContainer = getParentState(viewOrContainer, rootView);
+        if (isLContainer(viewOrContainer)) {
+          // this view will be destroyed so we need to notify queries that a view is detached
+          const viewsInContainer = (viewOrContainer as LContainer)[VIEWS];
+          for (let viewToDetach of viewsInContainer) {
+            if (viewToDetach[QUERIES]) {
+              viewToDetach[QUERIES] !.removeView();
+            }
+          }
+        }
       }
       cleanUpView(viewOrContainer || rootView);
       next = viewOrContainer && viewOrContainer ![NEXT];
diff --git a/packages/core/src/render3/util.ts b/packages/core/src/render3/util.ts
index a90a6c3001..3f67b07d38 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/render3/util.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/render3/util.ts
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ export function isComponentDef<T>(def: DirectiveDef<T>): def is ComponentDef<T>
   return (def as ComponentDef<T>).template !== null;
 }
 
-export function isLContainer(value: RElement | RComment | LContainer | StylingContext): boolean {
+export function isLContainer(
+    value: RElement | RComment | LContainer | LView | StylingContext | null): boolean {
   // Styling contexts are also arrays, but their first index contains an element node
   return Array.isArray(value) && value.length === LCONTAINER_LENGTH;
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/test/linker/query_integration_spec.ts b/packages/core/test/linker/query_integration_spec.ts
index fcaf05e908..4b4e32f194 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/linker/query_integration_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/linker/query_integration_spec.ts
@@ -633,25 +633,24 @@ describe('Query API', () => {
           expect(q.query.map((d: TextDirective) => d.text)).toEqual(['2', '1']);
         });
 
-    fixmeIvy('FW-920: Queries in nested views are not destroyed properly')
-        .it('should remove manually projected templates if their parent view is destroyed', () => {
-          const template = `
+    it('should remove manually projected templates if their parent view is destroyed', () => {
+      const template = `
           <manual-projecting #q><ng-template #tpl><div text="1"></div></ng-template></manual-projecting>
           <div *ngIf="shouldShow">
             <ng-container [ngTemplateOutlet]="tpl"></ng-container>
           </div>
         `;
-          const view = createTestCmp(MyComp0, template);
-          const q = view.debugElement.children[0].references !['q'];
-          view.componentInstance.shouldShow = true;
-          view.detectChanges();
+      const view = createTestCmp(MyComp0, template);
+      const q = view.debugElement.children[0].references !['q'];
+      view.componentInstance.shouldShow = true;
+      view.detectChanges();
 
-          expect(q.query.length).toBe(1);
+      expect(q.query.length).toBe(1);
 
-          view.componentInstance.shouldShow = false;
-          view.detectChanges();
-          expect(q.query.length).toBe(0);
-        });
+      view.componentInstance.shouldShow = false;
+      view.detectChanges();
+      expect(q.query.length).toBe(0);
+    });
 
     modifiedInIvy('https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/15117 fixed in ivy')
         .it('should not throw if a content template is queried and created in the view during change detection',