The handwritten book "List of Churches of the Oryol District 1755" mentions a church in the village of Sretenye-on-Rybnitsa, as this place was called in the 17th-18th centuries. The village was settled in the early 17th century by landowners and military personnel with their families. The church was built with the funds of parishioners and priest Mikhail Semov. In 1755, there were 45 houses in the village.

From 1841 to 1862, priest Ivanov conducted a major reconstruction of the church. The location of the temple is described as: "on a high bank of the Rybnitsa, not far from the confluence of a ravine." During this time, two altars were added to the church: in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Martyr Paraskeva.

In 1883, the church was adorned with interior paintings. At the same time, a zemstvo school was opened in the village with funds from priest Vasily Sviridov. In 1894, priest Alexander Sviridov built a new school building at his own expense. By the end of the 19th century, 40 boys and 25 girls were studying at the school. Near the village of Sretenye, the same priest established a church-parish school, where 22 boys and 16 girls studied.

According to the book "Oryol Province. List of Settlements according to the 1866 data," the village of Sretenye (Sretene) was located by the Rybnitsa River and had 51 households with 160 men and 157 women. There was one Orthodox church in the village. In the "List of Settlements of Oryol Province by Oryol District for 1927," it is indicated that in Sretenye, in the Sretene village council, there were 107 households, all of peasant type, and 526 people of both sexes lived there.

The church was closed in 1938 at the request of local residents.