The first wooden church was built in 1697. The consecration of the temple was evidenced by an inscription on a commemorative cross: "The Tsar's glory. Jesus Christ. Nika. The altar of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ was consecrated, and this cross was erected in the church of our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God, the Guide, under the righteous sovereign Tsar and Grand Duke Peter Alexeyevich."

In 1761, a stone church was built on the site of the dilapidated wooden church, with an altar in honor of the Great Martyr Catherine and a bell tower. In 1827, landowner M.M. Volynsky received permission to build a new church, which was completed in 1842, after his death. Funds amounting to 60 thousand rubles in banknotes were provided by Lavrenty Antonovich Dorozhkevich, a trusted person of Volynsky. The new church had three altars: of the Smolensk Mother of God, the Great Martyr Catherine, and John of Rila. The interior decoration of the church was adorned with paintings and stucco, and the iconostasis was topped with a blue "heavenly sphere." In 1880, local master Konstantin Alexeyevich Gusev painted the refectory.