According to the "Statistical Description of Cathedrals, Monasteries, Parish and Domestic Churches of the Simbirsk Diocese based on data from 1900" by N. Bazhenov, the church was wooden and built in 1877. It had three altars: the main one in honor of the Holy Trinity, and two chapels in honor of the prophet Elijah and Saint Nicholas. In the Tenkovskaya Podlesnaya settlement, there were 470 households, with 1467 men and 1590 women. Since 1895, a church parish charity operated here. The village also had a primary zemstvo school and, since 1894, a literacy school for girls, which was located in the priest's house.

The church played not only a spiritual and educational role but also a cultural and enlightening one. However, later known events occurred. As reported from the regional archive, the church in the village of Tenkovka in the Main District was closed in 1932 by a decision of the citizens' assembly, approved by the Middle Volga Regional Executive Committee. In 1939, the church building was sold to the collective farm "13th Anniversary of October" and was used as a grain storage facility and a grain procurement point.

In 1946, after the petition of the believers, the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Council of Ministers of the USSR allowed the church building to be returned to the believers. The external and internal appearance of the church was preserved, and the believers committed to carry out the repairs with their own efforts and funds. On April 20 and 21, 1946, Easter services were held in the church.

The regional archive contains documents regarding the functioning church in the village of Tenkovka until December 25, 1959. There is no information about the closure of the church. The last document, an act on the inventory of church utensils from the former church of the village of Tenkovka, accepted for temporary storage in the Neopalimoskaya church of Ulyanovsk, according to the act dated June 13, 1961, was subject to burning and disposal. This document is dated March 4, 1964, which suggests that the church was closed between 1960 and June 1961.