In the central square of the village of Ugodichi, behind the monument to the fellow countrymen who fell during the Great Patriotic War, stands a sad, dilapidated, roofless, three-tiered bell tower. Once, a magnificent church rose here: stately, with five domes, four tented roofs at the corners, and a chapel within the enclosure.

The luxurious Epiphany temple harmonized with the Nikolskaya church and became the first stone structure in Ugodichi. The main volume was erected between 1620 and 1627, when the Yaroslavl architectural school, having recovered from the Time of Troubles, was searching for a new style. The tent roofs of the chapels, the refectory, and the bell tower appeared later. Local historian A. Titov left an interesting description of the church in his book “The Rostov District of the Yaroslavl Province”: “According to legend, the temple was originally wooden, built with the blessing of Saint Isaiah, Bishop of Rostov and Suzdal, at the place where the venerable Abraham, returning from Vladimir, set down his staff and predicted the construction of the Epiphany church.”

According to Titov's research, the church was repeatedly rebuilt and expanded. “Finally, from 1851 to 1857, the church was rebuilt again with the funds of the parishioners and the efforts of the church elder Artynov... The interior decoration of the temple was adorned with new paintings, arabesques, stucco, marble columns, and more, although due to this reconstruction, the ancient appearance of the church was significantly altered and lost its previous architecture.”

Despite the loss of its original appearance, A. Titov considered the Epiphany church “the best adornment of Ugodichi.” It housed revered icons: the temple icon, the Epiphany of the Lord, a copy of the icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir from the Assumption Cathedral of Rostov, and the Savior Not Made by Hands, which, according to legend, was gifted by Ivan the Terrible himself. Another icon, the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, was reportedly given to the church by Princess Sophia, the daughter of Dmitry Donskoy. Among the relics was also “an ancient eight-pointed cross of exquisite Greek workmanship, brought from Greece.”

The church was closed in the early 1930s and soon demolished. Only the bell tower survived.