The village of Arefino in the Vachsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region was once the largest in the area and included several independent settlements: the village of Arefino, the hamlet of Ozyablkovo, the Zablitsky Pogost, and the Zaidomskaya Sloboda, located across the Idomka River. After the revolution, these settlements were merged into one, the village of Arefino.

The church in Zablitsky Pogost was founded in ancient times. According to an inscription in a surviving manuscript Gospel in the church, in 1586 there was already a church in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker with an altar in honor of Saint Martyr Paraskeva, Friday.

In the early 17th century, Zablitsky Pogost was part of the estate of boyar Ivan Nikitovich Romanov. The census books of 1629-1630 noted that there was a wooden church in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker with an altar of Paraskeva at the Pogost. The construction of the temple was a secular matter.

In 1643, a new wooden church was built at the Pogost with the main altar in honor of the Life-Giving Trinity and an altar in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker. The census books of 1676 describe that the church was built by the parishioners and fenced with a fence made of oak posts. The fence had double gates with small doors. The church of Zablitsky Pogost was quite richly decorated.

The parish of the Trinity church can be recognized from the revenue book of the Ryazan Diocese for 1676, which states that there is a church in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity in Zablitsky Pogost. The church had the yards of priests Ivan and Pavel, the widow of the priest, deacon Alexei, sacristans, and church clerks. The parish also had a voivode's yard, the yards of clerks Ivan and Matvey, and on church land, 38 yards of landless peasants and 5 yards of peasants.

According to the census books of 1675-1677, on church land in the chip and dye rows, there were 30 shops built during the boyar I. N. Romanov's time, and 7 new shops. On church land in the meat row, there were 10 granaries, 15 shops, 7 forges, an eatery, and 60 stalls. From the first shops, the tribute went to the royal treasury, and from the second, for the benefit of the church, which was confirmed by a decree of Tsar Fyodor Alexeyevich in 1680, kept in the church archive.

By the beginning of the 18th century, the wooden church at the Pogost had deteriorated, and at the request of the estate owner, boyar Lev Kirillovich Naryshkin, Metropolitan Stefan of Ryazan and Murom blessed the construction of a stone church in 1702. This church had two altars: in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity and Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. In 1745, the Nicholas altar was reconstructed and consecrated again with the blessing of Archbishop Alexey of Ryazan.

In 1791, another altar was arranged on the southern side of the refectory in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. In 1795, during a fire, the church was scorched, but after a major renovation, it was consecrated by Bishop Xenophon of Vladimir.

In 1843, the refectory of the church was significantly expanded, and since then the appearance of the church has remained unchanged. The church has five domes, with crosses on the tops cut out with a crescent below and a crown above. The altar of the church has three semicircular projections.

In the 1920s and 30s, the Arefino church was served by priest Alexei Ivanovich Magnitsky, who was arrested on October 2, 1930, and sentenced to three years in a concentration camp. In the 1930s, the following priests served in this church: Alexander Ivanovich Voskresensky, arrested on December 16, 1937, and shot on January 10, 1938; Vladimir Yakovlevich Sokolov, arrested on November 6, 1937, and shot on November 28 of the same year; deacon Vasily Vladimirovich Orlov, arrested on December 16, 1937, and shot on January 10, 1938; Felix Mikhailovich Kozelsky, who served as a priest in the church of the village of Arefino, arrested on November 6, 1937, and shot on November 28 of the same year.

In 1943, the church was reopened, and the priest became Protopresbyter Gerasim Popkov. In the 1960s, the priest of the church in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity was Father Georgy Barinov, a native of the village of Oksentyevo.