The Iver Icon of the Mother of God Church in the village of Naschekino was built in 1844 by ensign Smirnov on the recommendation of the diocese and in accordance with the "Brief Instructions on the Construction of Stone Churches." It was a stone, warm church with a large dome and porticos with many columns. The side altar was consecrated in honor of Saint Nicholas. In 1876, the church had a rector and a psalmist, and the priest was S.E. Yastrebov. The parish owned 56 desyatins of land, and the elder was a peasant named Morozov. In 1886, a male church parish school opened, followed by a female one in the 1890s.
From 1903, the priest, teacher, and educator in the schools was I.I. Pokhvallensky, who graduated from the Tambov Seminary in 1879. He served as a psalmist and teacher in the church parish school of the village of Uspensky in Kozlovsky district. From 1913, he was the chairman of the church parish council, from 1915, a district missionary, and from 1914, a spiritual investigator. Pokhvallensky was awarded a priest's vestment in 1907, a skufia in 1912, a kamilavka in 1916, and also received gratitude for his school activities and medals for "25 years of church parish schools" in 1909 and "In memory of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty." By 1911, the parish included the cemetery church and the villages of Zimenka, Bogoslovka, Yerzovka, Svishevka, Devyatovka, the Korenev estate, and the Korbova hamlet. The staff included a priest, a deacon, and two psalmists, and there were metric books since 1825 and a library. On November 5, 1918, I.I. Pokhvallensky was executed, and priest E. Lebedev from the Spasskaya women's community of the Morshansk district was appointed in his place. The church was closed around 1936, the dome was removed, and the icons were destroyed, but local residents saved the icon of Seraphim of Sarov, which is now located in Rasskazovo. Later, the building housed a grain storage facility, and from the 1950s to the 2000s, a rural library and club. In 2012, the temple was returned to the believers.
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