The first known church in the village of Verkhnyaya Grayvoronka in the Kastorensky district was dedicated to Dmitry of Rostov. According to the directory of church celebrations in the Voronezh diocese for 1884, compiled by Archimandrite D.M. Solebikin, this church was wooden and had a bell tower in 1799. It owned 2 dessiatinas of arable land and 33 dessiatinas of haymaking land, with a congregation of 1,170 people.

The book "From the History of Monasteries and Churches of the Kursk Region," published in 1998 with the blessing of Archbishop Juvenaly of Kursk and Rylsk, states that in 1848, a stone church in honor of the Akhtyr Icon of the Mother of God was built and consecrated in the village with the funds of peasant parishioners. It was constructed by masons, carpenters, and joiners from the Voronezh diocese, and painters also came from there.

After the October Revolution, according to the decree of February 5, 1918, church buildings were nationalized and transferred to local authorities. In the 1930s, churches were closed, and icons, archives, and church utensils were moved to Kastornoe, where they were piled near a wooden extension by the shop and in the empty stables of the merchant Popov. The district financial department was to hand over silver and gold items to the bank in Voronezh, while everything else could be used at the discretion of the local councils. Church archives were destroyed, leading to the loss of valuable information about parishes over 100-150 years of their existence.

In 1999, the Kursk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church opened a parish of the Akhtyr Icon of the Mother of God in a private house next to the ruined church. Since 2005, services have been held in the restored narthex of the church. In 2006, with the blessing of Archbishop Herman, an iconostasis from the Kursk Theological Seminary was installed, and in 2009, a small bell tower was acquired. At the same time, the village elders gifted the church a revered icon of the Akhtyr Mother of God.