The Nikolskaya church in the village of Gorodishche was first built by parishioners in 1765 and by 1861 was considered one of the oldest and sturdiest wooden churches. According to the diocese, it was rebuilt in 1872 and became a subsidiary of the church in the village of Bychki, where the elder was the peasant Trubnikov. In 1908, a new wooden church was erected. By 1911, the parish included the villages of Komarovka and Maloe Gorodishche, and there were a priest, a psalmist, and a church school. Metric books were kept since 1717. From 1909 to 1913, the priest and teacher in the school was N.K. Sakharov, presumably the grandfather of academician A.D. Sakharov. The Sakharov family lived in Gorodishche for a long time, and their children attended the local school. In the 1920s, fleeing from persecution, they moved from Tambov province to Moscow. Limes planted by N.K. Sakharov still grow in the village. One of the last priests, Ivan Vasilyevich Selyansky, was arrested in 1931 and sentenced to six years in camps. After serving his sentence, he was arrested again in 1937 and sentenced to another six years with the deprivation of voting rights for three years. The church was closed in 1940, and its building was repurposed as a grain warehouse. To this day, the building has survived, but it is not subject to restoration.