In 1885, the construction of a stone church with three altars and a bell tower was completed in the village of Rameshki. The altars were dedicated to the Holy Life-Giving Trinity, the icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God, and saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom. The church was built with funds from a local native, St. Petersburg merchant Grigory Semyonovich Ramenko. On September 1 and 2, 1885, Bishop Alexander of Kostroma and Galich visited the village and participated in the consecration of the new Trinity church, which was reported in an article in the Kostroma Diocesan Gazette on December 17, 1885.
On November 5, 1885, a new church school for peasant children opened near the school. The priest of the new church was Nikolai Nikolayevich Sobolev from the Transfiguration Church in the village of Glazunovo. He was the son of the protodeacon of the Chukhloma Transfiguration Cathedral, Nikolai Antonovich Sobolev, and the nephew of the rector of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Ivan Antonovich Sobolev. Along with him, a young deacon, Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Krutikov, was transferred to the village of Rameshki from the same church. The sacristan was Pavel Alexandrovich Uspensky, the son of a priest from the village of Serapikha.
Before the new church opened, the residents of Rameshki and the surrounding villages attended the Transfiguration Church in the village of Serapikha. After the death of priest N.N. Sobolev on December 18, 1904, he was succeeded by Gennady Samaryanov.
According to documents from the district council executive committee, the Trinity church in the village of Rameshki was officially closed in 1935 due to the lack of a clergyman and the need for repairs. The building was not used.
On June 28, 1948, the chairman of the Rameshki village council, V.P. Petrov, secretary V.M. Malkov, and state insurance agent N.K. Sergeeva, in the presence of the elder of the religious community A. Bokova, conducted an inventory of the church's property. A total of 53 items were recorded, including seven copper bells weighing a total of 168 poods and 34 pounds. The elder and members of the church community paid taxes and registered the community all these years to preserve the church. However, in the 1950s, its destruction began: the building was used as a grain storage facility, and then it fell into disrepair. Local residents sold copper and church utensils for scrap metal.
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