The Pokrov Church, built in 1672, was relocated to Shcholkovo Hamlet from the village of Zelenoe in the Gorodetsky District in 1970. Previously, the hamlet had a multi-tiered wooden church consisting of three octagonal structures on a square base, with a refectory from 1729 from the village of Starye Klyuchishchi in the Kstovsky District. It burned down in 2002.

The lost large Pokrov Church was moved in 1973 and 1975 to the Museum of Architecture and Everyday Life of the Peoples of the Nizhny Novgorod Volga Region in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1795, the roofs of the refectory and altar were rebuilt, and an octagonal bell tower with a high spire was erected over the refectory, which was dismantled in 1936 due to its dilapidated condition.

The Pokrov Church, which burned down on July 3, 2002, was a victim of arson. Fire services found traces of "open flame being brought in from outside the building" at a height of 1.5-2 meters from the ground. Museum staff noticed the fire and called the firefighters, who arrived seven minutes later but could not save the building. In 30-degree heat, the fire quickly engulfed the upper parts of the church, and the church, as tall as a five-story building, burned down in 20 minutes. Only charred fragments of the lower square base remained from the original monument, and some utensils were managed to be salvaged. The preserved refectory is largely a restoration "new build" from the Soviet era. The church burned down two days before a tender for its restoration was to be held.

The small Pokrov Church, built in 1672, occupied a central place in the development of the village of Zelenoe near Gorodets. The composition of the church included a prayer hall with a volok window on the northern facade and two kozyashchaty windows on the southern side, as well as lower volumes of the refectory and a five-walled altar, illuminated only by a volok window. All elements were aligned along a single axis and were covered with low-pitched gable and five-pitched roofs. The simple volume of the church was artistically expressive due to the increasing rhythm of the roofs. The main space and refectory were constructed from thick pine logs with "in the oblo" and "in the lap" corners. Above the roof of the central volume rose a small square base with a dome covered with scaly shingles and a cross. The notches in the rafters indicated that the roof previously had a "chicken" structure, while the refectory and altar were covered with boards with spear-shaped ends.

In the 17th century, the ridge logs were adorned with carved board crests. The notches on the western wall of the refectory suggest that the originally attached porch was asymmetrical and had a staircase on the northern side. By the 18th century, the church had significantly deteriorated and was repaired in 1794: the rafters were shortened, the walls and cornices were sheathed with boards, the volok windows were replaced with kozyashchaty ones, the prayer hall and refectory were combined, and a framed iconostasis was installed instead of the beam one. The church was relocated from the village of Zelenoe in the Gorodetsky District to Nizhny Novgorod and restored in 1970.