The first wooden church was built in the year the village was founded, in 1651, and was named in honor of All Saints. The church construction charter for this church has not survived. In 1675, a new wooden church with the same name was erected in its place. In 1710, only priests lived at the "Pogost by the river Svyatitsy." In 1760 and 1763, a new wooden church was built with an altar in honor of Saints Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria, consecrated in November 1763. The old church was dismantled in 1764.
In 1805, the construction of a stone church in the name of the Assumption of the Mother of God began, with two altars in honor of All Saints and the Holy Patriarchs Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria, completed in 1813. The old wooden church was dismantled in 1815. The altars were consecrated on September 28 and 29, 1813, and the cold Assumption church was consecrated in 1818. In winter, the cold church was separated by a temporary partition, and services were held in the warm altars. For Easter and in summer, the partition was removed. Later, another altar was arranged in the basement in honor of the Holy Prophet Elijah. This Assumption church has survived to this day in a semi-ruined state.
The oldest item kept in the church was a Service Book published in Moscow in 1657.
In 1853, a wooden Three Saints cemetery church was built, which was dismantled during the Soviet era.
In 1882, parishioners of the Svyatitsy church from the village of Koroli in the Yurskaya volost built a wooden chapel in memory of the martyr's death of Tsar Alexander II. The chapel was consecrated and named in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the heavenly patroness of the Russian people and the ruling house, in honor of Her Nativity. In 1882, the chapel was transformed into a church named in honor of Archangel Michael. On January 15, 1886, by decree of the Holy Synod, a new Malo-Korolevsky parish was established, which included villages within the borders of the modern Falen and Yarsk districts of Udmurtia. The Svyatitsy parish in 1872 consisted of 79 settlements, and in 1908, of 73 villages and hamlets in the Glazov and Slobodsky districts. The village was the center of the Svyatitsy volost of the Glazov district. After the revolution, the letter "Я" in the village's name was replaced with "Е." According to a report from the Cheka-OGPU on the political situation in the Vyatka province, on February 3, 1919, three priests were sentenced to execution for counter-revolutionary agitation. The Svyatitsy priest Alexey Alexandrovich Ardashev, arrested on January 4, 1919, was accused of belonging to the Union of the Russian People and possessing Black Hundred literature. The case was examined by the Revolutionary Military Tribunal of the 3rd Army of the Eastern Front. In connection with this case, the Svyatitsy executive committee issued a decree to seal the church and completely cease church rituals. On December 30, 1919, representatives of the church community signed an agreement to transfer the church buildings for indefinite and free use.
From 1919 to 1924, one furnace was relaid and two others were repaired in the Assumption church. The frames were repaired and glazed. Tethering posts were arranged around the church fence. The first attempt to close the church was in 1919, and it was temporarily closed again on December 27, 1935, due to an epidemic of scarlet fever. The faithful wrote a complaint to Kirov, and from March 26, 1936, services resumed. The church was finally closed on May 25, 1940.
The last priest, Father Sergey Ardashev, born in 1893, and his wife Alexandra Konstantinovna were convicted in 1942 for propaganda against the Soviet government and sentenced to 10 and 8 years of imprisonment, respectively. They were rehabilitated in 1992. Their son Evgeny fought at the front and is listed among the irretrievable losses twice: in 1943 as killed in action, and in 1944 as missing in Northern Transylvania. Sergey Ardashev's older brother, Nikolai Alekseevich, was arrested in 1937 and sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment.
The war forced a reassessment of attitudes towards religion, and churches began to reopen in the country. In September 1943, residents of the villages of Muly and Sheshpeli appealed to Kirov requesting permission for services in the church. However, the district authorities reported that the Svyatitsy church was in a completely unfit state: there was no iconostasis, church property was missing, the roof was open, and the bell tower was half-ruined. The question of restoring the church was raised again at the end of the 20th century, but the collective farm and local community lacked funds, and the diocese was restoring and building churches only in cities and large settlements. At the end of the 20th century, the letter "Я" returned to the village's name.
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