The parish was founded in 1687 when, according to the church construction decree issued by His Grace Ion, the first wooden church in the name of the Savior Not Made by Hands was built. The church was established by the Kukarsky Pokrovsky Monastery. All the early wooden churches in the village of Atary until the early 19th century were built on the low bank of the Vyatka River, while the parish itself was located on the opposite bank.

In 1731, due to the dilapidation of the church, permission was granted at the request of the priests to build a new wooden church, which was consecrated in 1734. At the request of the parishioners, the Kazan Bishop, His Grace Luka, blessed the construction of a second, separate, warm church in the name of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos on March 28, 1740.

In 1775, two wooden churches and 188 households in the parish were mentioned in the village. By 1793, the Vvedenskaya church had fallen into disrepair, and the parishioners asked His Grace Lavrenty for permission to build a Vvedensky chapel at the Savior Church. On September 1, 1793, a blessing was given for the construction of the chapel, which was consecrated on September 27 of the same year.

On March 7, 1800, His Grace Ambrose issued a church construction decree for the building of a stone church in the village of Atary to replace the wooden Savior Church. The church was built in 1809 on an elevation thanks to the efforts of the parishioners and voluntary donations. Along with the church, the village moved to the elevation due to the flooding of the bank. The iconostasis in the cold church was arranged much later. By the decree of the spiritual consistory on June 9, 1819, permission was granted to dismantle the old wooden church, but in 1833 it still stood in ruins, and children played in it.

According to the description of the church from 1919, it was a stone, iron-roofed, one-story, three-altar church with a bell tower. There was an underground passage at the church. The altars were dedicated to the Savior Not Made by Hands, the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos, and Saint Prince Vladimir. The wall paintings were completed in 1894 and 1900, and there were eight copper bells in the belfry, the largest weighing 32 poods and 11 pounds. There were enough church utensils, but there was no church-parish school. In the village of Tolstik, there was a chapel. The feast of Trinity was celebrated joyfully, with harmonies, dancing, and fights. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Vyatka and Slobodskoy Bishop visited the village only in 1904.

Special attractions included a gilded life-giving cross, a silver-gilded cross with an enamel crucifix, a silver gilded tabernacle, 18 hanging copper-silvered lamps on chains, and liturgical utensils made of silver.

In 1910, the parish consisted of 39 settlements with a Russian population of 5,176 people. The parish was poor and troubled, with many parishioners engaged in robbery. There were three zemstvo schools in the parish, and the main occupations of the parishioners were agriculture and seasonal work.

The clergy consisted of two priests, a deacon, and two psalmists. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the dynasty of priests Perfiryevs served. One of the outstanding priests was Archpriest Nikolai Lyuminarsky, awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 4th class in 1908. The last ministers were Priest Ioann Semenov, Deacon Grigory Domrachev, and Psalmist Panteleimon Novitsky. The last bell ringer, Yegor, was blind, and local residents gathered in his lodge.

Church valuables were confiscated on March 9, 1922. In 1923, the believers of the Atary parish joined the renovationist movement, but on March 8, 1925, they decided to leave it and dismissed the renovationist priest Troinin.

On March 14, 1930, the head of the Lebyazhsky RAO, Yemshanov, considered the issue of closing the church in the village of Atary, as the believers expressed a desire to dissolve the community and close the church. Probably, shortly after that, the church was closed, although in 1936, in the village of Yelkino, a priest used students to read the Gospel. For a long time, the church building housed a school.

In the 1940s, a prayer house operated in the village of Dvorets. The priest's daughter, honored teacher Vera Nikolaevna Lyuminarskaya, secretly taught the Law of God to children. In 1960, the whole village buried her. In 1961, the school in the village of Atary was closed, and soon after that, the village became deserted.