According to legend, the current village of Stanki was once home to the Assumption Monastery, where the venerable Michael the Chainsman lived. It is said that he was buried in this monastery after spending more than 50 years in iron chains. However, documentary evidence from the 17th century does not confirm the existence of a monastery in Stanki. The book "Description of Russian Saints" mentions that "the righteous laborer and ascetic Michael" served in the Monastery of the Assumption of the Mother of God and Saint Nicholas on the Klyazma River in the Mstera district in 1422. However, this does not allow for the identification of Stanki with the Assumption Monastery, as there has been no Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in Stanki since the 17th century, and the Mstera district has been the estate of the Romanov princes since the early 17th century. It is likely that Michael the Chainsman was buried elsewhere.

The first documentary mentions of the church in Stanki are found in the patriarchal tax books, where under the year 1628, it is noted as "the church of the Medushsky tithe of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos in Yarosolche." This suggests that the church was rebuilt.

According to the scribal books of the Yarosolche district from 1637-1647, the village of Stanki belonged to various landowners: Gavriil Andreyevich Ivanov, the chamberlain Fyodor Petrovich Nashchokin, the Nizhny Novgorod resident Fyodor Bartenyev, the Vladimir resident S. Vladykin, and the Nizhny Novgorod resident Ivan Plakidin.

According to the scribal books from 161, there were two priest's yards, a deacon's yard, a sexton's yard, and a prosphora-maker's yard at the Assumption Church in Stanki. The parish included four landowner yards, 214 peasant yards, and seven landless households. The church's arable land "of the landowner's middle estate" consisted of two chetvers in the field, and there were 20 bundles of hay in Berezovka and Vyzki.

From a petition by the parishioners of Stanki in 1753, it is evident that at that time there were three churches in Stanki: a wooden church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos with a tented roof, which had become dilapidated and rotten, as well as the tented bell tower above the porch; a stone church in the name of the Twelve Apostles with an altar in the name of John the Warrior; and an old wooden church of John Chrysostom, where services were not held due to its dilapidation.

As for the stone church in the name of the Twelve Apostles, its construction date is unknown, but based on its architecture, it can be attributed to the last quarter of the 17th century. In 1882, the church was reconstructed: seven arshins were added from the west, the vaults were renewed, the porch was converted into a refectory, the windows were enlarged, and a new dome was installed.

In the warm stone temple, there are two altars: the main one in the name of the Twelve Apostles and the altar in the name of John the Warrior. Among the holy icons, the icons of the Savior, John the Warrior, and the veneration of the chains of the Apostle Peter stand out for their antiquity. A pewter casket has survived from ancient utensils, and the library contains a Gospel printed during the reign of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich.