The earliest official document mentioning the recently founded village of Okatnaya in the Simbirsk district dates back to 1749 and was composed by the archimandrite of the Valaam monastery. This document states that a year earlier, the peasants received permission to build an Orthodox wooden church in the name of the Intercession of the Mother of God with an altar dedicated to Metropolitan Alexius, which was quickly accomplished. Since then, the village began to be called Pokrovskoye after the name of the church. In the mid-1760s, it remained under the ownership of the monastery along with the surrounding villages. On the Cheremshanka River and its springs, there were 19 peasant mills.

The first church stood for about twenty years and likely burned down. In 1773, a new wooden two-altar church was built on its site, consecrated in 1784. In 1861, thanks to the efforts of the parishioners, a third Pokrovskaya church was erected, again wooden and unheated. The clergy consisted of a priest and a psalmist-deacon, for whom church houses were provided. In March 1867, the new rector of the church urged parishioners to teach children literacy in the church watchman's house. A year later, with funds from the peasants and local landowner P. G. Ustinov, a room was added to the watchman's house, where a men's church school was opened. By the late 1870s, a teacher appeared in the school, and a new spacious building was constructed with an apartment for the teacher.

In the late 1890s, the Pokrovskaya church burned down, and in 1901, with funds from the parishioners and the treasury, a new wooden building with a bell tower was erected. The only altar was consecrated in the name of the Intercession of the Mother of God on November 4, 1902. The clergy of the church, which included the villages of Gerasimovka and Arbuzy Vrag, consisted of a priest, a deacon, and a psalmist, who lived in communal houses. In August 1913, benefactors Ivan and Samson Smonyaev donated a bell weighing 10 poods 29.5 pounds and costing 239 rubles 87 kopecks to the church in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.

On August 6, 1931, the Presidium of the Lower Volga Regional Executive Committee of the Councils of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies decided to satisfy the petition of the Khvalynsky district executive committee to close the Pokrovskaya church in the village of Akatnaya Maze and use the building for cultural and educational purposes. The church was closed, and its bell tower was soon dismantled. However, despite claims that the local collective farm had funds to convert the building into a cultural and educational institution, grain began to be stored in the church. The church remained in this state until the mid-1980s. On June 22, 1986, the central dome of the former church building collapsed, after which it was finally dismantled for firewood and building materials. Today, only the foundation of the church remains.