The church was built in 1768 by Count G.A. Stroganov. It is a wooden building on a stone foundation with a wooden bell tower. It is clad with boards and plastered inside. The church has three altars: the first is dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in a cold room, the second to the Holy Prophet Elijah in a warm room on the north side, and the third to the Righteous Wonderworker Elizabeth on the south side.

By 1908, the parish had 6,257 parishioners from 49 villages, and the income was 800 rubles. Two priests served in the church: Pavel Ilyin Belozyorov, 29 years old, a graduate of the Perm Theological Seminary, and Sergey Nikolaevich Obolensky, 34 years old, who completed the first class of the same seminary and was the rector of the Nikolayev Church from 1911 to 1914. The deacon was Alexander Ivanovich Shvetsov, 60 years old, a graduate of the Solikamsk Theological School. There were also two psalmists: Nikolai Nikolaevich Serebryannikov, 22 years old, and Nikolai Matveevich Mikhailov, 18 years old. The church elder was Georgy Ivanovich Krokhalev. The parish had four schools: a zemstvo school in Kupros, a church-parish school, and grammar schools in Aksyonovo and Vaskino, where 150 boys and girls were educated. Funds for the maintenance of the schools were allocated from the treasury. Kupros also had an Orthodox school, which in the mid-19th century was considered the best among 15 educational institutions of the spiritual department in the Stroganov estate. The church had a library of 110 books, and in 1911, a sobriety society was established.

In 1930, the church was closed by the decision of the Komi-Permyak Okrispolkom, and the building was repurposed as a club. At a meeting of the residents of the village of Kupros, attended by 220 people, it was unanimously decided: "Considering the need for buildings for cultural institutions and the fact that no one goes to the Kupros Church except for 10-15 old women, to transfer it to a cultural institution." This event was reported in the article "Enough of Religious Nonsense" in the newspaper "Pakhary" on January 4, 1930. In 1938, the church lost its bells, which were sent to Ust-Pozhva. The building remained empty for a long time, and in the 1980s, it was turned into a warehouse for industrial goods. The deputy director of the Kupros school, Nadezhda Fedorovna, recalls how in 1988, 27 icons were moved from the church to the school, which were later taken by employees of the regional local history museum. In the 1990s, the warehouse was closed, and the building began to deteriorate, although remarkable wall paintings remained inside.

In 2002, at a meeting of the residents of the village, it was decided to revive the parish of the Nikolsk Church. A suitable room was found, a former shop next to the ruined church, where a prayer house was opened. The work was led by Serafima Andreevna Totmyanina, the former head of the Kupros village council. Grandmothers gather for prayer, read canons and akathists, dreaming of at least a chapel, as a lot of funds are required to restore the former building of the Nikolsk Church. Experts from Perm are to decide whether it makes sense to reconstruct the building. So far, a cross has been installed at the site of the future chapel, which was consecrated on October 14, 2006. The service was conducted by the archpriest of the Kudymkar district, Fr. Igor Vilesov, Fr. Ioann Bezukladnikov from Pozhva, and Fr. Vladimir Babin from Maikor. Spiritual traditions in Kupros are being revived.