In 1710, permission was granted to build a stone Epiphany church with a chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which is why the church is often referred to as Nicholas. Previously, there was a wooden Nicholas church on this site, known since 1653, but it burned down on May 9, 1709. The church was commissioned by the Nerekhta merchant Fyodor Zimin the Younger, and its construction took 15 years. The Nicholas chapel was consecrated in 1717, and the main church in 1725. In 1767, the church was painted by Yaroslavl masters, the Shustov brothers. In the first half of the 19th century, the old refectory was replaced with a more spacious one with an updated chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and All Saints, as well as a symmetrical northern chapel consecrated in honor of Peter and Paul. Later, the refectory was expanded to the west with two volumes on either side of the original bell tower, which housed the sacristy and library. In front of the bell tower, a four-column portico was built, and the church grounds were enclosed with a metal fence on stone pillars. On the side facades of the square base, there are three tall rectangular windows of the second light, framed with moldings characteristic of Kostroma architecture of the 17th century, with three-lobed keel-shaped kokoshniks. In 1867, the church's painting was updated.
In the 1930s, the church lost its domes, the altar was dismantled, and the upper tiers of the bell tower were removed, while the fence was demolished. In the 1980s, the church was restored according to the project of architect A. P. Chernov from the Kostroma Special Scientific Restoration Production Workshop: the lost domes, the top of the bell tower, the altar apses, and the fence were restored, recreated according to the project of architect S. V. Demidov from the Central Scientific Restoration Production Workshop. In 1987, the iconostasis from the village of Verkhovye in the Soligalich district was transferred to the church.
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