The village of Talitsa was founded between 1900 and 1902. In 1900, a church was built here, which was consecrated on March 17, 1901, in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On November 20, 1902, by decree of the Spiritual Consistory, a new village called Grebenkinskoye was established, and a new parish was formed from the villages of Verkhonsunsky and Ilyinsky parishes. On July 4, 1903, the village was named Talitsa. After some time, to distinguish it from another village with the same name, the words Upper and Lower were added.

The wooden Assumption church, which still stands in the village of Talitsa today, was built in 1861 in the village of Sardyk in the Uninsky district. At the end of the 19th century, a new stone church began to be constructed in Sardyk, and the old one, still in good condition, was transported to Talitsa. It may be the oldest wooden structure in the area. By 1908, the parish included 15 settlements.

On April 17, 1920, representatives of the church community signed an agreement with the chairman of the village council for the transfer of church buildings for indefinite and free use. The attached inventory states: "Wooden Assumption Church, clad with boards and painted with oil paint, with a bell tower. Purchased old, built on a stone foundation and covered with iron in 1899 and 1900." The bell tower had 8 bells, the largest of which weighed 40 poods. At that time, the priests serving in the church were Porshnev Pavel Vasilyevich and Leontyev German Semyonovich.

Since 1936, Talitsa became the district center of the Belsky district, and the church was closed first. In the spring of 1936, its closure was justified by an epidemic, while simultaneously a petition was filed by citizens and collective farmers from the villages of Limonovtsy, Byakovtsy, Karmishonki, Yelesenki, Nizhniye Bechenki, Pustyntsy, Byakovtsy, Zailiet, Nizhniye Vanenki, and others. Out of 507 residents, 448 voted for the closure of the church.

The church was closed by the decision of the Belsky Regional Executive Committee on March 6, 1936. The decision of the Oblispolkom is absent from the case. The GAKO archive holds the church plan and a map of the Belsky district from 1936. According to the memories of the old-timers recorded in the book "Where We Come From. Falen District. History, Events, People," the last priest was Father Nikolai. The church building was repurposed into a district House of Culture and has remained in that form to this day.