The history of the Presentation Church in the village of Kulbaki dates back to February 1705, when, by the decree of Metropolitan Stefan of Ryazan and Murom and the treasurer Elder Tikhon Makaryevsky, based on the request of Ataman Matvey Merlenko and his associates, permission was granted to build a new church in the village of Kulbaki in the name of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
At that time, there were 10 Cossack households in Kulbaki. In February 1705, an antimins was issued for the newly built church, which was received and signed by priest Yermolai Ivanov. Over time, the building fell into disrepair and was rebuilt in 1734. The 1811 census mentions the "parish two-congregation Presentation Church of the village of Kulbaki," where priest Alexey Dmitrievich Grushinsky, also known as Bugayevsky, served. Records of subsequent reconstructions of the church have not survived.
According to a reference book on churches from 1908 and the clerical report from 1915, the Presentation Church was built in 1890 through the efforts of the parishioners. The building was wooden on a stone foundation and covered with iron, with a bell tower nearby. The church had three altars: the main one in the name of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the northern one in the name of the Meeting of the Lord, and the southern one in the name of the holy righteous Prince Alexander Nevsky. A church-parish school operated at the church, and the library housed 70 volumes of books.
From 1900 to 1902, the law teacher of the Kulbaki literacy school was priest Georgy Vladimirovich Petrovsky, who from 1906 also managed the Kulbaki and Sergeevsky church-parish schools. Among the notable priests who served in the Presentation Church were Alexey Grushinsky, Simeon Nikolsky (1821-1879), Alexander Ivanov (1890), who was the law teacher of the Elisaveta Primary School from 1897 to 1902, and from 1904 to 1917 managed the Muzhitskaya church-parish school, and Georgy Vladimirovich Petrovsky (1900-1917).
In 1932, services in the old Presentation Church ceased, and the building was used by the collective farm for economic needs. Soon the church was destroyed. Currently, the parish operates in an adapted facility.
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