The Church of Panteleimon in the village of Sapogovo, now the settlement of Iskra in the Kursk district of the Kursk region, was built in 1902 with funds from the Kursk Provincial Zemstvo and consecrated on October 16 of the same year by Bishop Lavrenty of Kursk and Belgorod in honor of the venerable martyr Andrew of Crete.

In the 1920s and 30s, the church building was transferred to the Kursk Regional Psychiatric Hospital by the decision of the Soviet authorities and was used as a storage facility. During the Great Patriotic War, the church was desecrated when the fascist occupiers turned it into a stable.

In 1990, at the initiative of the Kursk Regional Council of People's Deputies and the decision of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the church building was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. On August 9, the day of the great martyr and healer Panteleimon, Metropolitan German of Kursk and Rylsk held a water blessing service in the restoring church.

The history of the dilapidated church.

Originally, the church was intended as a spiritual healing center for patients of the psychiatric hospital and for the spiritual guidance of residents of the surrounding villages. Currently, the building is in a deplorable state: the roof, floors, and windows are missing, and complete restoration is required. Even the surviving walls have cracks and significant damage. Recently, by agreement with the hospital management, a small room was allocated to the parish in one of the treatment buildings for conducting services and spiritual conversations with patients. However, this space is clearly insufficient for the needs of the parish, as about 1500 people are treated in the hospital, including in the children's, narcological departments, and hospice. It is time to restore the desecrated shrine.