In the historical centre of the city of Alatyr, Chuvash Republic, surrounded by ancient temples and merchant houses located Nikolo-Znamensky temple. The Church building was built on the means of the congregation in 1770. A brick building replaced the earlier which stood on the site of a wooden Church with the main altar in honor of the icon of the Sign Mother of God. In the early seventeenth century when the temple was Nikolsky women's monastery.

Three-altar stone Church with chapels of St. Nicholas and of the Holy apostles Peter and Paul Church with a tall bell tower was built in the traditional Russian architectural style common to many iconic buildings in the eighteenth century, despite the fact that each Church had its own unique look. The facades of Nikolo-the sign of the temple is richly decorated in the Baroque spirit, and in the design of the bell tower is clearly guessed the Russian-Byzantine style, fits perfectly into the temple ensemble. In our days Nikolo-Znamensky temple is an architectural monument of Federal importance, as well as a beautiful landmark of Alatyr.

In the 1930-ies, like most of the temple buildings, Znamenskaya Church was plundered and closed, and in the 1940s the building was used as a brewery. In 1988 the building was returned to believers, and since 1989, restoration work began. In our days, the original appearance of the historic building restored and is part of the architectural ensemble of the Old Market square (now the October Revolution).

Opposite the temple is the house in which lived a family with Nefedova young S. D. Erzya, which became a world-renowned artist and sculptor, and not a renovated two-storey house at the Church. In a historic complex of buildings of the area are also included: the first temple fortress city Alatyr - Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the blessed virgin Mary, the former Treasury building (Art Museum) and the Kazan Church.