The first mention of the church in the village of Fentisovo, Shchigrovsky district, is found in the "Topographical Description of the Kursk Province from 1784." The document states that in the village, located by the river Polevaya Snava, there is a wooden church in the name of St. Demetrius the Myrrh-streaming, which has three courtyards for clergy and church servants, where six people reside.

After the abolition of districts and changes in boundaries, the village remained in the Shchigrovsky district until 1924, then became part of the Kursk district, and in 1928 it became part of the Zolotukhinsky district.

In 1896, the old wooden church burned down, and for several years there was no temple in the village. Documents from 1898 mention that the Dmitrievskaya church had burned down. Later, the construction of a new church began, with funds collected from parishioners. In 1903, a wooden church in honor of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica was built in the village of Fentisovo, Nikolaevskaya volost, Shchigrovsky district, Kursk province, on a brick foundation with an iron roof.

The spiritual consistory planned to build a stone church. In 1904, a project for its construction was submitted, but the church was never built. The site for the new church was chosen 20-25 fathoms west of the burned one, on flat and dry land.

The parish included the villages of Boyeva, Tishina, and Zolotukhina. According to data from 1908, the parish had 1,567 men, and 946 dissenters. The clergy owned four desyatinas of homestead land, 25.3 desyatinas of arable land, two desyatinas of hayfields, and 3.7 desyatinas of forest. There was a church-parish school and two zemstvo schools operating, where church-Slavonic literacy, Russian language, arithmetic, and the Law of God were taught.

In the 1920s, the Bolsheviks confiscated four silver items weighing 92 zolotniks from the church. In 1936, the church was closed by local authorities and used for grain storage. The church council filed a complaint, and the building was released. In 1937, 125 believers were registered in the community, but shortly before the war, the church was closed and handed over to the district council for cultural purposes.

In August 1944, the church and community were re-registered. By 1962, the wooden building was receiving parishioners from several village councils. At that time, services were conducted by priest Sergey Yevdokimovich Pozdnyakov. In the 1970s and 1980s, the church continued to operate.

By the decree of the governor of the Kursk region dated October 30, 1998, the Dmitrievskaya church in the village of Fentisovo was recognized as a monument of cult architecture of regional significance.