In the village of Ilyinskoye, located in the Great Desert, there is a stone church with a bell tower, built in 1815 through the efforts of the parishioners. The fence around the church is also made of stone. There is a cemetery on the church grounds. The temple has four altars: in honor of the Nativity of Christ, the holy prophet Elijah, the venerable Macarius of Unzha, and Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The church is located 177 versts from Kostroma and 24 versts from Chukhloma. The nearest churches are the Rizopolozhenskaya in Ozerki, 4 versts away, and the Vvedenskaya on the Viga River, 5 versts away.