The Slavtsovskaya volost, both in the past and now, is completely covered by forests. In ancient times, it was a wilderness with impenetrable forests and swamps, where settlements were located like separate islands. In the early 17th century, a wooden church was built in honor of the great martyr George among these forests. The place where the temple appeared was named Georgievsky pogost, and nearby in the birch groves, the villages of Khalturka and Gotovkino arose, later the village of Berezniki appeared. After 1635, the church was included in the Patriarchal records. The history does not preserve who initiated the construction and when exactly the temple appeared on the Berezniki land.

The settlement of the volost likely began in the second half of the 17th century, as the land books of Vladimir district from 7150-7155 mention only wastelands. According to legend, there was once a royal hunt in the Slavetsky forests, and royal hunters lived here, wearing white sashes over their shoulders. Perhaps this church was built for them. By the end of the 17th century, the Slavetsky volost was already listed in the estate of Prince Fyodor Semyonovich Urusov, a cousin of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. In 1725, the wooden church burned down, and a stone temple with the same dedication was erected in its place. Initially, there was only one altar in the church, but in 1781-1788, with the funds of Prince A. P. Golitsyn, a second altar was added in the refectory in honor of the great martyr Paraskeva Friday. At that time, the parish had 350 households.

In 1838, the refectory was expanded, and another chapel was arranged in honor of the prophet Elijah. In 1839, the priest Alexei Ivanovich Uspensky was appointed to the church of Georgievsky pogost by the diocesan archbishop and transferred from the village of Erleksa in the Sudogodsky district, where he managed the parish until the end of his life. From 1842 to 1860, the priest Boris Ivanovich Molitvoslov served at the Georgievsky church. Under him, in 1856-1859, the temple was rebuilt and expanded, after which it retained only one altar in honor of the great martyr George. It has remained in this form to this day: a powerful five-domed two-light square with an elongated refectory and a multi-tiered bell tower. In 1864, the deacon of the Dmitrov Cathedral in Vladimir, Ioann Ilarionovich Uspensky, was transferred to the church of Georgievsky pogost with the elevation to the rank of priest, serving in the temple until he retired in 1885.

After 1917, services in the church continued. In the 1930s, priest Pavel Poletaev and deacon Nikolai Lebedev were convicted and exiled to camps, from which they did not return. During the Soviet era, the church was preserved thanks to the chairman of the collective farm Grigory Klimov, who wrote to all instances that a grain warehouse was set up in the church, but he himself locked it up and did not let anyone in. Thanks to this, the building remained virtually untouched, even the English tiles on the floor look new. During the Great Patriotic War, the church did not close, but there was no permanent clergy, and services were conducted by visiting priests. In 1964, the Georgievsky church was closed. In the 1970s, royal gates, chandeliers, banners, church utensils, and many icons were taken to Suzdal. The external and internal appearance of the church suffered greatly: the heating became unusable, and the painting in the refectory by the end of the 1980s left much to be desired.

In 1989, the Georgievsky church was reopened at the request of parishioners. The last reconstruction of the church took place in the mid-19th century, allowing up to 2000 people to pray simultaneously. The temple is divided into winter and summer parts, the latter is not heated and is closed from October until the end of spring.