The village of Podberezye is located 16 versts from the city of Vladimir. In the charter of Grand Duke Ivan III Vasilyevich from 1504, which granted immunity from princely officials to metropolitan villages, the village "new under the birches" is mentioned. Considering the similarity of this name with the modern name of the village and its geographical location among the villages of Spasskoye and Bogoslov, as well as the absence of another village with the same name, it can be assumed that the charter refers to the present-day Podberezye. It is unknown who owned the village later, but in the records of the Patriarchal Treasury Office from 1728, Podberezye is listed among the estates of the Holy Synod. After the abolition of monastic estates, it was recorded as private and partially state-owned. The mention of the village in the 1504 charter indicates the existence of a church, although there is no information about it.

The existence of a church in the early 17th century is confirmed by records in the patriarchal salary books of 1628, which mention the Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker in Podberezye. In 1691, by the order of Patriarch Adrian, this church was rebuilt due to its dilapidation and consecrated in honor of Saint Nicholas. The patriarch ordered the old antimins to be placed in the new altar and the usable logs from the old church to be used for the construction of the new one, while the unusable ones were to be burned in the field.

In the early 18th century, there was another church in the village in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, which was rebuilt and consecrated in 1718 by the abbot of the Snovitsky Monastery, Markell. The further fate of these churches is unknown.

Today, a stone church stands in Podberezye, built in 1856. In 1891, a warm chapel was arranged in it, dividing the church into two parts. The stone bell tower was completed in 1871. The church features a cross with a crown on top and a crescent at the bottom.

The church has two altars: in the cold part in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, and in the warm part, in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The ancient icons of the Smolensk Mother of God and Nicholas the Wonderworker, transferred from previous churches, are held in special honor. The church library contains the founding charter of Patriarch Adrian from 1691 and a Bible gifted in 1783 by Akulina Lukina.

Church documents have been preserved: copies of metric books from 1800, confession lists from 1828. The church owns 1 desyatina of estate land and 33 desyatinas of arable and haymaking land, but there is no plan or land registry book. The clergy consists of a priest and a psalmist, who receive their sustenance from church duties, bread collections, interest from a capital of 300 rubles, and from the land. The clergy's houses are located on church land. The parish includes the village of Podberezye, the villages of Novo-Alexandrovka and Skorodumka, and the hamlet of Bolshoye Zhitkovo; the parish has 367 men and 387 women, all Orthodox.