The wooden church was built in 1760, and in 1814 and 1824 it was renovated by the landowner A.V. Tolstoy. The church had two altars: the main, cold one in honor of the Archangel Michael, and a warm one in the chapel, in honor of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian. Originally, the church was wooden, constructed from logs 'in a lap joint', and was located on the slope of the left bank of the Bekshanka River, dominating the surrounding landscape. The building's volume was elongated along the east-west axis, and the high volume of the church consisted of a cubic base and an octagonal section of the same width and height, topped with a hemispherical dome. The composition was crowned with an onion dome on an eight-sided short neck with an ornate metal cross on a round base, secured with chains. The dimensions of the building were 34.0 x 9.7 m, and there were three entrances: from the north, west, and south. The interior was decorated in the early 19th century, with the walls inside plastered and adorned with cornice profiles, rosettes, and icon cases. The bell tower was lost in the 1930s.

During the Soviet era, the building was used as a feed storage for the 'Rassvet' state farm in the Nikolaevsky district of the Ulyanovsk region.