The village of Pirovy Gorodishchi is located 6 versts from the district town of Vyazniki and 110 versts from Vladimir. Until 1764, it belonged to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, to which it was transferred in the 16th century. The patriarchal tax records from 1656 mention the "Church of St. Sergius the Wonderworker in the estate of the Trinity Sergius Monastery in Pirovy Gorodishchi." The land registry books of that time add that the church was wooden, built by the parishioners. It had a priest, a deacon, a sexton, and a prosphora-baker serving there. The village had a monastery yard, 2 yards of landless peasants, 13 peasant yards, and 5 landless peasant yards. According to the 1678 census, the village included a monastery yard, 8 yards of monastery dependents, 13 peasant yards, and 2 landless peasant yards.

In 1695, residents of the villages of Shchekina, Sekeryna, Kashirina, Golovina, and Maryina, previously belonging to the Church of Boris and Gleb beyond the Great Lake, joined the Pirov parish. The peasants explained their transition by stating that their former church was located across water barriers, and the priest could not reach them in time, especially during the spring floods, when the sick remained without confession and mothers in labor without prayer.

In 1706, a warm wooden church in the name of the holy prophet Elijah was built and consecrated in Pirovy Gorodishchi. In 1711, a new church in the name of St. Sergius was erected. In 1806, a stone church was built in their place, which still exists today. It has three altars: the main one in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and two in the warm chapels, in the name of the holy prophet Elijah and in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. The church is well supplied with utensils, vestments, holy icons, and liturgical books, but there is nothing particularly valuable or ancient in it.

The church staff includes a priest and a psalmist. Their maintenance is provided through land, grain collections from parishioners, interest capital, and services, amounting to up to 650 rubles per year. The members of the clergy have their own houses built on church land. The parish includes the village of Pirovy Gorodishchi and 11 villages, where the clerical records list 721 men and 806 women. Since 1889, a church-parish school has been operating in the village.