The Church of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos was built in 1547 with funds from the boyar Ivan Khabarov on the site of a wooden parish of the Lower Service settlement. Until 1679, it served as the cathedral of the Lower, or Podolsky, women's Friday monastery. The architecture of the building replicates the main artistic forms of the Spiritual Church of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery. The upper part of the church has undergone multiple reconstructions. As a result of military actions in the early 17th century, the vaults, zakomaras, and part of the walls were damaged, which were restored in 1621. In 1740, the western pillars of the church were dismantled, and the existing closed vault was created, supporting the baroque drum with the dome. In 1822, a western porch was added to the church. In 1896-1897, the church became part of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

The church was closed in 1928 and used for economic purposes, later being transferred to the Zagorsk Historical and Art Museum. During restoration work, initiated in 1968 by V.I. Baldin and continued by V.V. Kavelmakher, the cultural heritage object regained some of its ancient forms, and the later porch was dismantled. Since 1991, the church has been reopened for worshippers and transferred to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, where the Friday courtyard was organized.

In the past, the church was a four-pillar, two-light, single-domed structure with three apses of equal height, located on a high basement. The walls are divided by bundle pilasters into three bays and decorated with a tier of zakomaras with a belt of keel-shaped niches. The apses are adorned with bundles connected by a garland with ornate finials, and a frieze of ceramic tiles with zoomorphic and floral ornamentation. Of the two prospective portals, the western one shows traces of cut white stone "arrows" in the bases of the keel-shaped archivolt. The three upper windows, including the one illuminating the southern chapel of Saints Constantine and Helena in the deacon's area, were possibly originally round with a stone outer rosette. The zakomara covering of the church with diagonal kokoshniks dates back to the 1960s.

Four internal pillars have survived only in the basement, covered with cross vaults, while two eastern pillars with altar barriers remain in the central and northern naves. In the attic, above the eastern support arch, a fragment of the 17th-century drum base has been preserved. The interior of the church was decorated with paintings from 1850 with later inserts, mostly preserved on the vault. The white stone floor was laid over the previous ceramic one. The historical iconostasis has been lost.