The Church of the Nativity of Christ is located in a village on a narrow cape in the valley of the Putimets stream. The first mentions of it date back to 1734 and 1755, and it was associated with 92 parish households.
The modern brick church with a single altar was built in 1803 with funds from parishioners, replacing an old wooden one. An iron fence was installed around it. In 1898, a watchman's lodge was erected next to the church building, which housed a literacy school from 1903.
The church was closed in the 1930s and used as a grain storage facility, but it reopened on June 4, 1944. In 1942-1943, priest Yevgeny Alekseyevich Zvyaginstev donated about 1600 rubles to the Kazan parish to help the poor and orphans, to the tank column named after Dmitry Donskoy, and also provided 35 meters of canvas, 13 pairs of woolen stockings and gloves, and 4 padded jackets for captured Red Army soldiers.
In 1960, the church was closed again. Restoration of the building was carried out from 1989 to 1991.
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