The village of Stara Bashkarka was founded in the first half of the 18th century and is located in the southern part of the Prigorodny district, in the center of the Sverdlovsk region. The Bashkarka River flows through it, which flows into the Ambar, a tributary of the Neiva. Local residents engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. In 1898, the building of the Bashkarsky district executive committee was constructed here, and in 1925, a school for peasant youth was opened in it. In the early 1900s, a primary zemstvo school appeared in the village, and in the autumn of 1907, the first public library named after Pavlenkov opened in its building. In 1906, the Bashkarskaya hospital was built.

Little is known about the church in the village. The Perm spiritual consistory decreed that "the clergy and the church elder of the Bashkarskaya church should dismantle the wooden chapel after the church is built, and transfer the holy icons and other belongings to the church, using the building materials for the psalmist's house." This indicates that there was a chapel in the village before the church was built, but details about it are unknown. The directory "Parishes and Churches of the Yekaterinburg Diocese" states that the parish of the village was part of the fourth deanery district of the Verkhoturye district of the Yekaterinburg diocese. The village of Bashkarskoye is located 96 versts from Yekaterinburg.

The parish is located on the banks of the Bashkarka, Kamenka, and Anbar rivers. The climate here is favorable for health, the soil is black earth and clay in places. The Bashkarsky parish separated from the Murzinsky parish and was opened in 1870. It includes the village of Bashkarskoye and three villages: Novo-Bashkarka 3 versts away, Mokrouska on the Kamenka River 7 versts away, and Sarapulka on the Anbar River 4 versts away. The village got its name from the first inhabitant, bashkirin. All parishioners are Russian peasants, a total of 1211 men, of which 335 are dissenters, Austrians, and non-popovtsy. The residents mainly engage in grain farming, some work in factories, in summer they transport iron, and in winter, firewood and coal. There is a zemstvo public school in the village, and in the village of Mokrouska, a church school for literacy. The first church in the village was wooden, single-altar, in the name of the Nativity of John the Baptist, built in 1879 with the funds of the parishioners. In 1888, the church burned down in a fire. In 1890, a stone church was laid, which was completed and consecrated in 1893.

It is known that on June 24, 1888, priest Alexander Zlygostev was transferred from the Bashkarskoye village to the Iletskoe village of the Irbit district, and by the end of the year, the priest's position remained vacant. In 1899, the psalmist of the church was Alexander Shaberdin, mentioned in the list of students of the Yekaterinburg Spiritual School. From September 22, 1910, the position of prosphora maker remained vacant. In 1915, Iakov Nikонов was appointed as psalmist, and Mikhail Lavrentevich Belousov became the church elder. The church was closed in 1928. During the Soviet era, the building was first used as a warehouse, and from 1956 to 1979, as a gym for the rural secondary school. After the school moved to a new building, the church remained abandoned.