On December 13, 1849, a decree was issued to establish an independent parish in the village of Lyuk. The Holy Synod allocated several villages from the parish of the Izhyev Cathedral of Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky. In 1850, local residents built a wooden church with one altar, consecrated in honor of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. In 1863, the building was reconstructed and expanded. In 1867, a church parish guardianship was established, and in 1873, a church parish school was opened.
The construction of the modern brick church in honor of the Apostles Peter and Paul began on June 5, 1901, by the decision of the Sarapul Spiritual Administration. The project was developed by the Vyatka provincial architect Ivan Apollonovich Charushin, and the construction was financed by the parishioners. The church was consecrated on December 11, 1912. A significant contribution to the construction was made by Priest Vladimir Andreevich Ustyugov, who was born in 1866 in the Glazov district. Since 1897, he worked as a teacher at the Lyuk Zemstvo School.
In the first decades of Soviet power, the Peter and Paul Church continued to operate despite pressure from the authorities. It was not closed even in the late 1930s, although the priests often changed. Parishioners recall that in 1937, one of the priests, Father Pavel, brought many books for the church library.
In 1960, the church was closed during the "Khrushchev persecutions" and handed over to the school. The last rector before the closure was Priest Alexander Abashev.
In 1986, layman Veniamin Glukhikh began to revive the spiritual life in the village of Lyuk. He moved an abandoned chapel from his village of Bolshoy Kiyayik to Lyuk and arranged it as the Church of the Rizopolozhение of the Mother of God. The chapel, built in 1876 and closed in 1932, was restored with the help of the collective farm. In 1991, parishioners, under the guidance of Veniamin Glukhikh, achieved the opening of the Rizopolozhensky parish. In those years, efforts began to return the Peter and Paul Church. In February 1994, Veniamin Glukhikh was ordained and began conducting services.
On February 26, 1994, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church blessed the construction of the Bogoroditsky Women's Monastery at the Church of Peter and Paul. Father Veniamin led this endeavor. In the 1990s and early 2000s, under his leadership, a cell building, a sewing workshop, a refectory, and a house for pilgrims were built. In 1997, the Peter and Paul Church was transferred to the Izhyev Diocese and renovated by the parishioners.
The red brick church is adorned with a tent bell tower and five domes. It retains unique tiles made by Elabuga merchants, the production technology of which was lost during the Soviet era.
After the completion of construction, Father Veniamin passed away, and there were no successors to continue his work. One of the subsequent rectors wanted to create a center for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, but the idea did not gain support. In 2012, the centenary of the consecration of the stone church was celebrated. At the same time, a fire occurred in the wooden Rizopolozhensky church.
Six months after his appointment to the Izhyev See, Metropolitan Viktor Kostenkov invited nun Glafira Sergeeva to organize the monastery. On July 15, 2016, the Holy Synod decided to open the Rizopolozhensky Women's Monastery in the village of Lyuk and appointed Mother Glafira as its abbess.
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