The first mention of the church dates back to 1629. According to the land registry book of the Borovsky district, the wooden Dormition church with a cemetery was under the jurisdiction of the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. The church was home to priests, deacons, a sexton, and a prosphora baker, and it also had arable land. Later census books specify that the church had two chapels: one dedicated to the Archangel Michael and the other to Saint Martyr Paraskeva Friday. It was wooden, with a single dome, resembling the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in the village of Vysokoye, and was moved from the Moscow province in the mid-17th century.
By the early 18th century, the church had fallen into disrepair, and in 1712, the peasants of the village of Vorsino appealed to the protodeacon of the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, Feodot Kozmin, with a request to build a new church building. By order of Tsar Peter Alexeyevich, it was decided to construct a wooden Dormition church with a chapel dedicated to the Archangel Michael instead of a stone church due to lack of funds. In 1720, the church was completed and consecrated, serving for another 140 years.
The church survived the invasion of Napoleon's army but burned down in 1860. In 1898, the construction of a stone church began, with the main altar dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God and two chapels: one for the Archangel Michael and the other for the Ascension of the Lord. It is important to note that the fate of the new stone church is linked to the name of Saint Martyr Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. By her personal order, the necessary funds were allocated to complete the construction, and by 1917, it was finished.
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