The church in the village of Nikulsk is mentioned in the books of the patriarchal treasury office from the year 1628 as "the church of the great Wonderworker Nicholas in the village of Mikulsk, in the estate of the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery of Suzdal." It is unknown who and when transferred this village to the monastery and how long the monastery owned it, but a tribute of six altyns and five kopecks is mentioned. In 1676, it was recorded that "for 184 years, it should be written in the estate of the Novodevichy Monastery, which is in Moscow," and in 1746, the cost of the church in the village of Mikulsk was indicated as 1 ruble and 91 kopecks and a half.

According to the Vladimir scribal books of 1625-1626, there was a "priest's yard" near the Nicholas church, with 55 households in the parish, and 20 quarters of arable land and 40 hay stacks of church land. The census book of 1703 indicates that the parish had grown to 72 households, and the hay stacks were 15. In 1702, the church is described as a wooden tent-like structure with one dome in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker, covered with shingles, with porches and a bell tower connected to the church by passages.

The architectural appearance of the church reflects features of the Empire style, which is rarely found in buildings of that time. The central volume, a square in one and a half stories, is expanded to the west into the refectory and to the east into a semicircular apse. The single dome rose on a spherical cupola set on an octagonal drum with semicircular light openings. Previously, the ensemble was completed by a three-tiered bell tower adjacent to the refectory, but it was destroyed during the Soviet years. There is almost no masonry decor in the exterior finish, except for the relief masonry on the apse and decorative niches in the refectory.

At the end of December 1935, meetings were held in the village of Nikulsk in the Nebylovsky district regarding the closure of the church, the prohibition of bell ringing, and the demolition of the bell tower. On December 27, the Klementyevsky village council raised the issue of the church's liquidation before the Nebylovsky district executive committee. On January 1, 1936, believers filed a protest with the regional executive committee against the decisions to close the church and remove the bells. Only on June 26 did the regional executive committee instruct the district executive committee to address the believers' complaint about the confiscation of the bells, but only the signaling ones, and explained how the district executive committee could legally keep them.