The parish in the village of Yuski was established by the Holy Synod at the suggestion of the Kazan New Baptized Office on January 18, 1759. It included 18 settlements.
The first wooden church, dedicated to the Meeting of the Lord, was built in 1760. During the Pugachev uprising, the church was looted. On June 28, 1774, Pugachev arrived in the village of Yuski with eight Cossacks and newly baptized Votyaks, where they executed priest Semyon Yakovlev, his wife, his father, a retired priest, and his son, who served as a sexton. The church was desecrated and plundered.
On June 30, 1781, the Vyatka Spiritual Consistory issued permission to build a new chapel in honor of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. In November 1791, the church and the Peter and Paul chapel burned down. On January 17, 1792, the consistory again issued permission to build a new church with the same chapel. The chapel was built and consecrated on December 30, 1792, and the main altar was consecrated on November 8, 1802. On June 15, 1846, Bishop Neofit of Vyatka and Slobodskoy issued permission to build a stone church. Funds for the construction came from the Artillery Department of the Izhevsk factory and private donations from parishioners.
The stone church was completed and consecrated on June 4, 1859, in honor of the icon of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1870, a church parish charity was established at the church, which was responsible for raising funds for the maintenance, decoration, and reconstruction of the church, as well as for the support of the school and clergy. According to the staffing schedule of 1885, the clergy consisted of a priest, a deacon, and a psalmist. The church was closed on September 10, 1939, and the building was repurposed as a club.
The last priest before the church's closure was Father Nikolai Pinegin, who was later exiled to Siberia with his family. Their further fate is unknown. The Soviet authorities removed the bells and transported them away, while church utensils and valuables were confiscated. From 1940 to 1950, the building housed a production combine that fulfilled military orders, such as making carts, sleds, sewing fur coats, and processing hides. The production combine destroyed the cast-iron fence on the facade of the church. Later, the building was used by the collective farm 'Svoboda' as a grain storage and pesticide warehouse. It was then sold to the 'Metallist' factory in Izhevsk for a furniture workshop. After the workshop's bankruptcy in 1992, the building was transferred to the Orthodox Church.
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