The first church in the village of Pektubaevo, Yaran district of Vyatka province, was a wooden structure with one altar, built in 1734 and consecrated in honor of the Nativity of Christ. A stone church was constructed in 1820 with funds from parishioners, blessed by Bishop Amvrosy Vyshizerov of Vyatka. By the 1870s, altars were consecrated in the church in honor of the Nativity of Christ (October 20, 1862), the prophet Elijah (operating since the 1820s), and the Protection of the Holy Virgin (October 9, 1863). In 1915, chapels were associated with the church in honor of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin, the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the martyrs Flora and Lavra, St. George the Victorious, and the Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helena. The church staff included 3 priests, a deacon, and 3 psalmists. The parish had a church school in Pektubaevo, a school under the Ministry of Education in Kuglanur, and 7 zemstvo schools in nearby villages.

During the Soviet era, the clergy and believers of the church did not support Renovationism; in the 1930s, they were part of the Mari Vicariate of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese. Archpriest Nikolai Titovich Ignatiev, who served in Pektubaevo for over 40 years, tried to protect his flock from delusions. He was arrested on April 26, 1938, and accused of participating in a counter-revolutionary organization, anti-collective farm agitation, and spreading rumors about the imminent fall of Soviet power. On September 25, 1938, at a meeting of the NKVD troika for the Mari ASSR, he was sentenced to execution, which was carried out on September 27 at 8 PM.

Deacon Mikhail Nikolaevich Favorovsky, ordained in 1922, also defended the parish, persuading believers to protest against the removal of bells in 1935 and the closure of the church in 1936. On October 31, 1938, he was arrested and placed in the Yoshkar-Ola prison. During interrogations and confrontations, he rejected false accusations. However, on January 26, 1939, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and his further fate is unknown.

The Pektubaevo church was closed on September 13, 1936, and was used as a club, then as a village cultural center and library. The parish in Pektubaevo was revived in 2004, and the first service took place that same year. In 2008, the church building was fully returned to the believers, and since then it has been undergoing repairs. An important event was the complete renewal of the roof four years ago.