The stone church, popularly known as the White Church, was built in the center of the village in 1817. All the serfs of Yakovlevsky village, both men and women, participated in the construction. They performed the heaviest tasks: transporting bricks to the construction site, mixing clay with their feet to make bricks, delivering water, and firing the bricks. Then they lifted the bricks onto scaffolding to erect the walls. According to our grandfathers, the main masters were not Russians, but Italians invited by the landowner, though this claim is unverified.

The church is built in the shape of a ship and accommodates 700 worshippers. The exterior of the building was carefully plastered and whitewashed, while the interior was painted with oil paint: in warm tones for the winter room and in bluish tones for the summer room. The winter room was heated by a large airtight Dutch stove.

On the southern side of the bell tower, on both sides of the arched window, large paintings measuring three meters were affixed: "St. Nicholas the Wonderworker" and "John the Theologian," painted in oil on thick iron sheets.

The church was surrounded by a wooden fence, painted in various colors and adorned with carved wooden heads. At the entrance to the porch, above the gates of the fence, there were arched arches. Around the fence, specially planted birch trees grew, adding special beauty to the building.

On the first night of Easter, the church was illuminated with colorful lantern lights, resin barrels were lit, and shots were fired from rifles, muskets, and cannons.