In 1709, a church was built in the village of Ponika in honor of the Nativity of Christ, founded by Count Ulyanin. The ancestor of the Ulyanin family is considered to be Davyd Ivanovich Ulyanin, a great-grandson of the noble Murza Minchak, who left the Golden Horde and arrived at the Grand Duke of Moscow Dmitry Donskoy, converting to Christianity under the name Boris Simeon Kosayevich. His father, Murza Kosay, named the village, which for a long time was called the Nativity.

In 1783, the landowner Irina Vasilyevna Gryaznova built the Epiphany Church. According to the map of the general land surveying of 1806 and the metric books, this church coexisted for some time with the Nativity Church, mentions of which disappear from the metric books in 1825. In the 1930s, following the traditions of that time, the church was closed and left unattended.

In 2015, Bishop Filaret of Barysh and Inza blessed the restoration of the Epiphany Church, which received a new name in honor of St. Nina the Equal-to-the-Apostles. Thanks to the efforts of the head of the district administration A. N. Rizaev and the villagers, the church acquired a modern appearance.