The Intercession Church in the village of Bolshoye Cherevatovo, Diveyevo District, was opened in 1993 on the feast of the Nativity of Christ. On January 7, 2013, the church celebrated the 20th anniversary of its revival. The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin stands out with its unusually large dome in the Eastern style and is an ancient structure.

In the 17th century, the church was wooden and had two altars, dedicated to Saint Nicholas and the Intercession of the Holy Virgin. By 1851, it was rebuilt in stone by Vasily Ksenofontovich Vladimirskiy, the archpriest of the Ardatov district. The church became three-altar, with an additional right chapel in honor of the Life-Giving Trinity. The last priest serving before the church was closed in 1937 was Mitrophor Archpriest Jacob Vinogradov, born in 1876 in the village of Vasilyev Vrag, Arzamas district. He was arrested right in the church and soon was sentenced and executed.

Anna Grigoryevna Isaeva, the former starosta of the church who worked there since 1993, remembers the former splendor and the choir, which had up to 40 singers. She recalls how on September 28, 1937, the church was closed, and the last service took place on the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. After the church was closed, villagers said that the Mother of God wept there, and candles and lamps would light up by themselves. Anna was five years old at the time, and she and other children would go at night to see if it was true. Two years later, as a first grader, she saw how icons were taken out of the church, trampled underfoot, and loaded onto trucks. The children collected gilded decorations from the iconostasis, but their father scolded her and her brother, saying that nothing could be taken from the church.

The authorities considered how to use the church. The village library has archived documents on the history of the parish and the village, including a decision from the executive committee of the Gorky Regional Council dated March 24, 1941, to close the church and convert it into a club at the request of citizens. An estimate is attached, where the dismantling and sealing of the dome is valued at 2,000 rubles, which was planned to be obtained from the sale of excess iron and bricks. There is also a blueprint for the future club with a red flag on the truncated bell tower. However, the war hindered the implementation of these plans.

Local residents suggested using the church as a grain storage facility. Thanks to this, the collective farm covered the building with iron, and it did not suffer much damage. A passage was made in the altar, gates were hung, and agricultural machinery of the collective farm was stored there.