The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God 'Sign' in the village of Znamenska, built in 1830, is an architectural monument. Its construction was funded by landowner Anna Semenovna Cheremisina.

The church housed a locally venerated image, a copy of the Novgorod Icon of the Mother of God 'Sign'.

Prior to this, there was a wooden Znamenskaya church in the village, built in the 1750s and reconstructed in 1790. After its consecration, the village of Knyazhnoe was renamed Znamenska.

The parish also included the villages of Kamenka and Kleshenska. The church was heated by four stoves. In 1892, deacon Vladimir Alexandrovich Spassky, the grandfather of world chess champion Boris Spassky, was appointed to the church. In 1908, priest Alexander Alekseevich Ogulkov and deacon Pyotr Ivanovich Smirnov served here.

In the 1930s, after the arrest of the priest (presumably in 1931), the church faced the threat of closure. Residents wrote complaints to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee: 'There are many believers in Znamenska, all kolkhoz workers, they want to pray in the church.' The church was officially closed on July 11, 1937.

During the war, services resumed, and a priest appeared in the village, but only for a short time. During Khrushchev's campaign against religion, the church lost its bell tower. To facilitate the entry of machinery, the side doors were widened, leading to cracks in the walls.

Currently, services are held in a prayer house next to the church, which continues to be restored.