The village of Ivanovo, located by the ponds, is 50 versts from the district town and 87 versts from the provincial capital. The church in this village existed as early as the beginning of the 17th century. In the patriarchal revenue books of 1628, it is mentioned as "the church of the Nativity of the Most Pure Virgin Mary in the village of Ivanovo, in the estate of Prince Fyodor Khilkov."

In 1672, the church was transferred from the patriarchal domain to the Suzdal diocese. By 1678, there were 19 peasant households and 13 landless households in Ivanovo, with a population of 117 men.

Further information about the church in Ivanovo is absent until the beginning of the 19th century. In 1833, instead of the previous wooden church, a stone temple was built with funds from the landowners Naryshkin and Kiselev, which still exists today.

The temple has three altars: the main one in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, one in the warm refectory in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, and one for the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.

The church has 33 desyatinas of land, as indicated in the land plan of landowner Kiseleva. This land is owned by peasants, while the church clergy uses land in exchange for peasant land.

The parish includes the village of Ivanovo, the village of Yesina, the hamlet of Myasnikova, and the Sokolovo station of the Murom railway. According to clerical records, there are 352 men and 365 women in these settlements.