The parish in the village of Yakovlevo was formed in 1865. The church is arranged with five domes, two floors, on the upper floor there is a throne in honor of the Akhtyrskaya Icon of the Mother of God, and on the lower floor - in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God. Of the holy icons, the Akhtyrskaya Icon of the Mother of God is especially revered by parishioners and local residents. The Akhtyrsky side-chapel of the Yakovlevskaya church could no longer accommodate all the parishioners. Then they decided to build a large stone temple of the Akhtyrskaya Icon of the Mother of God next to the existing church. In the village of Shchetinovo there was an estate of the merchant Bakhov. At the end of the 19th century, the merchant sold the estate and put part of the money in the bank so that the community could build a school, a hospital and a church. The capital lay in the bank without movement. When the son of the merchant Bakhov arrived to check on the construction, it turned out that this money had been forgotten. The money was received with interest and spent on the construction of a hospital in Yakovlevo, as well as a two-story stone school in Shchetinovo, but there was little money left for the church, and then a brick factory was built in the village of Vlasov. When enough of the required bricks were made, through the tireless labors of the builders, led by the rector Fr. Dmitry Levkoev and the church warden V. I. Galkin, they built a beautiful church with a capacity of 1,000 people.
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