The Nikolayevskaya church in the village of Shiryayevo, built of stone along with a bell tower, was erected in 1828 with funds from the parishioners. Next to it stands the wooden Ascension church without a bell tower, built in 1760 with funds from Mikhail Alexandrovich Kalzakov. In 1894-1895, it was reconstructed with donations from benefactors and the help of parishioners. The fence around the church is made of stone, while the cemetery, located 223 fathoms from the church, is surrounded by a wooden fence. The Nikolayevsky temple has one altar dedicated to Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The Ascension temple has three altars: the Ascension of the Lord, the Dormition of the Mother of God, and the holy martyrs Flora and Lavra. The local shrine is the icon of Saint Nicholas. The village is located 80 versts from Kostroma and 25 versts from Kineshma. The nearest churches are: the Christ the Birth church in Grebnyakh, 2 versts away, the Kazan church in the village of Znamenskoye, and the Mother of God church in the village of Ugolskoye, 5 versts away, the Mother of God church in the village of Adishchevo, 6 versts away, and the Spasskaya church in the village of Zabor'e, 10 versts away.

In the 17th century, the village was part of the Kostroma district according to administrative-territorial division, and according to church-administrative division, it was in the Pleskaya ten. In 1637, a church "of Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Kuyeckaya volost in the estate of Konstantin Arsenyev son Polozov" is mentioned as "newly arrived."

In 1629 and 1630, the estate belonged to Konstantin and Timofey Arsenyev according to the import charter of 1629; previously it was owned by Dementiy Vasilyev Polozov, and then by their father. In the village, which was previously a wasteland Shiryayevo on the Mikhailovka river, there was a landowner's yard and two peasant yards.

In 1646, there was a church of Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Shiryayevo, where priest Ivan and deacon Grishka Zotikov served, and there was also a landowner's yard and three peasant yards.

In 1678, half of the village of Shiryayevo was recorded under clerk Ivan Ivanovich Shetnev, where there were the church of the Wonderworker Nicholas and the Martyrs Flora and Lavra, as well as a new church of the Ascension of Christ our God with an altar of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, built by landowners. The priest Gavriil served in the village.

In April 1680, the church of Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Kuyeckaya volost in the village of Shiryayevo was located in the estate of Ivan Ivanovich Shetnev and Fedosya Vasilyev son Polozov. The priest Gavriil lived on the church land, and in the village, there was a landowner's yard of Ivan Ivanovich Shetnev, who came there temporarily, while his appointed man Mirka Sazontov lived there permanently.