The church, built from pine logs, is an outstanding example of a Kletsk temple with a unique pile foundation structure. It was erected in 1713 on the site of a burned wooden tent church. According to legend, the builders were the Muliyev brothers, carpenters from Yaroslavl. The church has been repaired multiple times, and after one of the renovations in 1770, it was consecrated again. In 1876, the church was clad with planks on the outside, plastered on the inside, and a new iconostasis was installed. In 1899 and 1904, the wooden piles of the foundation were replaced with brick pillars. The tent bell tower on six oak piles, connected to the church by passages, was destroyed in 1926. In 1908, a brick bell tower was built nearby, which has survived to this day.

In 1956, the church was moved to a museum from the village of Spas-Vezhi in the Kostroma region and was restored in the late 1950s according to the project of architect B.V. Gnedovsky. However, almost half a century later, on September 4, 2002, the church burned down as a result of a fire. A decision has now been made to recreate it. The main composition of the church, standing on 24 oak piles, included a square section elongated in the transverse direction, and lower extensions of a pentagonal apse and an almost square refectory. The church and refectory were surrounded by a closed gallery, supported by cantilevered logs, with a long single-flight staircase with a porch leading to the western side. The church and refectory were hewn "in the round," while the apse was "in the paw." All three volumes were topped with high gable roofs with eaves and weather vanes. The roof of the square section was crowned with a square log structure topped with an onion dome on a cylindrical drum. The walls of the church and refectory had eaves that were almost imperceptible due to the overhangs of the roof. The volumetric-planning composition of the church had a number of features: the refectory was an irregular quadrilateral, and the square section and apse were "oblique," with the width of the gallery varying. However, visually, these changes in geometric forms were not perceived. Deviations from straight lines were also observed in the roofs of the church; for example, the slopes of the roof of the square section had slight curvature. The southern and northern walls of the church had angled windows, and the apse also had volokovye windows. The frame walls of the gallery were clad with planks "in a herringbone pattern" and pierced with windows with keel-shaped finishes. The most ornate elements of the church were carved gables and towels decorated with towns, solar signs, and other motifs of folk architecture. Doors leading from the gallery to the church were located on three sides. The rooms of the church and refectory, connected by a rectangular opening, had flat wooden ceilings supported by beams. In front of the restored four-tiered tabernacle iconostasis, a solea with steps and two choirs was made. Wooden benches were arranged along the walls of the refectory and at the western wall of the square section. The floors were made of planks.