In the land books of the Vladimir district from 1637-1647, the village of Zakolpye is mentioned as an ancient estate of the boyar Nikita Ivanovich Romanov. The village had a wooden church of the Nativity of Christ, which housed icons, candles, books, and an iron clapper, all belonging to the estate owners. Two priests, Alexey and Nikolai, served at the church, along with a deacon and a prosphora baker. In 1682, the estate was transferred to the Moscow Novospassky Monastery and the Holy Danilov Monastery, remaining in their possession until 1764. The church in Zakolpye existed as early as the beginning of the 17th century, but little information about it has survived. Documents from the Patriarchal Treasury contain records of the issuance of an antimins for the consecration of the church of the Nativity of Christ in 1691 and a decree for the consecration of a new church in 1713, the name of which is unknown.

In 1834, the construction of a stone Nativity of Christ temple began in Zakolpye. The refectory was completed in 1837, and the main church in 1845. The temple had three altars: the main one in honor of the Nativity of Christ, in the refectory, in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, and Saint Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian. A small silver pectoral cross with gilding and a relic of Saint Basil the Great, placed in 1840, was kept in the church. The parish included the village of Zakolpye, the hamlet of Konstantinovo, and the villages of Borisovo, Dudor, Dmitrievo, Makhonino, and part of the village of Grigoryevo.

The parishioners of the Nativity of Christ temple included not only local residents but also nearby landowners. Among them was Yefimiya Dmitrievna Arsenyeva, a cousin of the mother of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, who married the landowner of Melenki and the district leader of the nobility, Lieutenant Colonel Pyotr Alexeyevich Chizhov. In the churchyard of the temple, a gray-pink granite tombstone has survived to this day, inscribed: "Here lies the body of the servant of God Yefimiya Dmitrievna Chizhov, born Arsenyeva, who passed away on February 5, 1873, at the age of 62." She was buried in Zakolpye by Archpriest Pyotr Vasilyevich Mirtov.

Pyotr Vasilyevich Mirtov served as the rector of the church in Zakolpye from 1853 to 1899. On July 20, 1857, his son Vasily Petrovich Mirtov was born. Pyotr Vasilyevich passed away in 1899, and his white marble monument has survived to this day.