The stone church, built in 1853 with funds from the landowner and chamber junker Konstantin Petrovich Naryshkin, is a warm temple. It has three altars: the main one is dedicated to the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, as well as to Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess. In the village of Lokhmytovka, there is a church school. The village has 813 households, with 2823 men and 2728 women, all of whom are Great Russians engaged in agriculture.
In the village of Glukhivka, there are parish and zemstvo primary schools, in Lokhmytovka, a parish school, and in the village of Vorontsovka, a zemstvo school. The law teacher receives 50 rubles a year for each school. The parish guardianship is actively working. Since 1840, metric books have been maintained and there is an inventory of church property. The church library contains 200 volumes.
The church staff includes two priests, a deacon, and two psalmists. The clergy have 2 dessiatinas of homestead land and 65 dessiatinas of field land, of which 30 dessiatinas are located 9 versts from the church, and the rest are directly behind the village. The income from the land is 15 rubles per dessiatina per year. The total annual income of the brotherhood is 1300 rubles, plus an annual subsidy from the treasury of 950 rubles. The clergy's capital amounts to 925 rubles, and the church's, 2000 rubles. One priest and a psalmist have church houses without outbuildings, measuring 10×16 and 7×9 square arshins respectively.
The parish is located 11 versts from the "Tamala" station, which has a post office, market, and a feldsher's point. The village is in the Glukhivka volost, 45 versts from the deanery, 35 versts from the city of Kirsanova, and 125 versts from Tambov. The nearest church is located in the village of Bibikivka, 8 versts away.
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