The Smolensk parish has two stone churches with a bell tower, one of which is cold and dedicated to the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, while the other, warm, is named after Saint Simeon the Stylite. In 1655, peasants from Skuchilov petitioned Patriarch Nikon, complaining that there was no church in their settlement, and requested permission to build two wooden churches. That same year, with the patriarch's blessing, these churches were erected.

The wooden Smolensk church stood until 1696, when Archimandrite Isaiah of the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery and the cellarer Niphont, along with the brethren, approached the Suzdal Metropolitan Hilarion with a request to allow the construction of a stone church in place of the wooden one. On October 29, 1696, Metropolitan Hilarion issued a decree for the construction of the stone Smolensk church, which was completed and consecrated in 1707 and still stands today.

Since 1799, copies of the metric books have been kept, and since 1803, confession records. In 1887, an inventory of church property was compiled, which is also kept in the church. The church owns land measuring 334 square fathoms. The parish consists of a priest and a psalmist, with an annual income of about 650 rubles. The priest has a church house, and the psalmist has his own. The parish includes 59 households, with 188 men and 201 women living there.

At the time of the construction of the Smolensk church, five domes were already out of fashion, but here it fits well into the architecture, lightening the massive cubical base of the building. Elegant drums are adorned with carvings and topped with onion-shaped domes of gray-steel color. An altar apse is attached to the eastern side. The facades are separated from the roof by a cornice with kokoshniks, columns, and teeth. The high windows are decorated with frames featuring 'beads' on ornate pilasters.

Along the trade route past the church, carts with goods from Yaroslavl constantly passed by. Perhaps that is why the northern wall of the church is more richly decorated than the southern one. The clerks accompanying the convoys often entered the church to light candles in gratitude for a successful journey or in hopes of profit. Or perhaps one of the craftsmen was more diligent and did not cut corners.