By 1691, the Savior Church was built with the blessing of Patriarch Andrian. However, by the end of the 1710s, it had significantly deteriorated, and the parish priest began to petition for permission to rebuild the church in stone. Metropolitan Stefan Yavorsky granted such permission in 1708, but the stone church was not built until nearly thirty years later. This was due to Peter I's decree from 1714, which prohibited stone construction outside of St. Petersburg. The decree was lifted in 1741, and by 1745, the stone Savior temple was erected. The Balakhna Spiritual Administration informed the Holy Synod that the new church was built according to customs and ready for consecration. The Synod granted permission for the consecration on January 4, 1746, and it was carried out immediately.

In the late 18th century, the land under the Savior temple passed to Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov thanks to Catherine II. In 1767, the Orlovs accompanied the empress on a trip along the Volga. In 1772, Catherine II transferred to Orlov the former palace lands, including territories in the village of Gorodets. In 1775, the estate passed to Vladimir Grigoryevich Orlov, and in 1831, it was inherited by his daughter Sofia Vladimirovna Panina. The estate remained in the Panin family until the revolution when it was nationalized. Relations between the peasants and the clergy of the Savior church were tense due to the predominance of Old Believers among the peasants. The conflict was exacerbated by the Old Believer chapel built in 1786 on church land. The priests opposed the chapel and wrote complaints, trying to prove its illegality.

After the Proletarian Revolution, clergy and the bourgeoisie found themselves isolated. In the 1920s, the Savior temple faced oppression. In 1922, the Bolsheviks decided to plunder it, and by the end of the 1920s, to close it. The parishioners disagreed and in 1930 sent delegates to M.I. Kalinin, who canceled the closure decision, and services resumed until 1937. After the arrest and execution of priest Nikolai Derzhavin, the church was finally closed. The building was repurposed as a dairy factory and then as a carpentry workshop. The bell tower disappeared, crosses were removed, and the premises were converted for economic needs. This continued until the late 1980s. After the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus, the church was returned to the Orthodox community, and in October 1990, the first service was held there after a long break.