The first wooden church in Moshyuga was associated with the Mochensk church and was built in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1851. It burned down in 1873 due to the negligence of the watchman. In 1874, a new wooden church was built, which was consecrated on February 10, 1875.

Its bell tower, built in 1884 from larch to replace the burned one, is particularly interesting. Although Moshyuga was not as wealthy a village as Izhma, Mochcha, or Sizyabsk, and could not afford a stone church with a bell tower, the locals did not want to lag behind others. Carpenters from Moshyuga built a wooden bell tower that exactly replicated the stone bell tower in Mochcha. Today, it is the only surviving wooden bell tower in the area.

The bell tower has three tiers. Its structure is made with careful notching "in paw." Each tier is adorned with a decorative portico with columns, and the Corinthian capitals of the columns are carved with great skill. The cornices are decorated with dry crackers, creating the illusion of a stone structure. The four-pitched roof is topped with a spire and a cross, and the craftsmen even reproduced the lucarnes on the roof. The carpenters displayed incredible skill in erecting such a structure. The construction was led by master Kanev from Krasnobor, a village at the mouth of the Izhma River. This is a monument to the Izhma craftsmen, notes Northern researcher Heinrich Gunn.

Recently, the bell tower was referred to as the local "Leaning Tower of Pisa" due to its noticeable tilt. Realizing that no one would come to straighten it, and that if the tilt increased, it could collapse, the residents of Moshyuga decided to fix the situation themselves. First, they reinforced the foundation, then installed a lightning rod in the shape of a cross, as lightning had struck the bell tower three times in 123 years, but fires had been extinguished. After that, the process of straightening the tilt began, for which the 160-ton structure was lifted with jacks. The slow lifting process lasted about a month.