In February 1863, peasants Pyotr Alexeev and Ivan Vasilyev, representing the villagers, appealed to His Grace Theophilus, Bishop of Samara and Stavropol, requesting permission to build a church. At that time, there were 138 households in Yerzovka, with a population of 1,172. Permission was granted, and construction began the same year, completed in 1866. In that year, a house for the clergy was built, and in 1867, a watchman's hut. The church was consecrated in 1868 by the local archpriest Yakov Vinogradov.
According to the Clerical Record, the church was wooden with a bell tower on a stone foundation, covered with iron and painted with oil paint. It could accommodate up to 1,900 people and had one altar in the name of the Archangel Michael. The church building resembled a cross, with a five-sided altar and a roof consisting of two parts. The upper part of the roof had an octagonal structure with false windows, topped with a cross. The refectory was slightly narrower than the church and adjoined a three-tiered bell tower. The temple was surrounded by a wooden fence with three exits. It was located half a kilometer from the village.
On December 25, 1905, the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk church in Yerzovka burned down. Initially, parishioners planned to relocate the church from Poludnevo, but later decided to build a new temple together with the residents of the village of Skripniki. A petition was submitted to the Samara Spiritual Consistory, and on June 25, 1906, the plan for the new church was approved. On March 11, 1907, the peasants of Yerzovka and Skripniki agreed on the construction under certain conditions.
During the construction, Nikolai Prokofyev sought assistance from the Holy Synod. Emperor Nicholas II allocated one thousand rubles for the construction, and in November 1908, a prayer service for the health of the emperor was held. The church was built in 1909.
The church in Yerzovka was closed by the decision of the Regional Executive Committee on April 22, 1922, and in 1935 it was dismantled, with the logs used to build a school for tractor drivers in Kinel-Cherkassy.
In January 2004, a decision was made to build a new church in Yerzovka. The residents collected over 50,000 rubles, and with the support of local farmers, a stone church was built by March 2007. On October 28, 2007, a minor consecration of the church in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Breadwinner" took place, and in May 2009, the Great Consecration.
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