The predecessor of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was a small wooden Church, built in the early 18th century in the name of ascension. Two images, dedicated to the blessed virgin Mary and the prophet Elijah, were the main attractions of the Church. Salmi parish registers were started in 1806, and in one of them it was recorded that in the early nineteenth century wooden Church burned down.

In honor of the 55th anniversary of the victory over the Turkish fleet at Chesme, with the assistance of the maid of honor Anna Alexeyevna Orlov - Chesmensky, and money on merchant Fyodor Makovkin, in 1814, construction began on a new stone Church in honor of St. Nicholas. Stone Church, the construction of which was finished in 1824, was designed in the neoclassical style. For a long time it remained the status of the greatest Church and she was the only stone building in the Border areas of Karelia.

The Church was designed by Finnish masters C. L. Engel, famous for its buildings in Helsinki. According to the authors, the Church was symmetric, connected to one longitudinal axis with a bell tower. The semicircular dome covers the main temple part, built in the form of an octahedron. The Golden cross adorned the dome itself. The building was accessed through multiple inputs from the lateral facades, through the bell tower and the West. On the flat facade of the shape of the aisles were decorated with porticoes, and over the main entrance was installed the canopy with window.

Laid on the stones the three-tiered bell tower, adorned with 11 bells. The weight of the largest bell was about 1700 kg Plastered brick walls of the temple were decorated with corbels and cornice facade with pilasters. Outside the Church was painted in yellow color, and decoration and pilasters in white. Tin roof was painted green.

Although in no Church bulletins from 1826 doesn't say that in the temple were remarkable and miraculous icons, but we know that inside the Church were installed three altars, decorated with rich iconography. The inner walls of the temple were decorated with icons and columns and arches are beautifully frescoed.

Six-foot wooden fence around the Church complex and cemetery. Temple of the earth, more than 5 hectares, belonged to the Countess Anna Orlova. At the Church there were two priests, one deacon, two Sexton, two of the Sexton.

The Church, named in honor of St. Nicholas – the patron Saint of travelers and sailors, was a tribute to the groom Anna Orlova – Nikolai Dolgoruky, who died in Finland. Commanding in the war against Sweden by the Russian troops, he died, and not knowing about the consent of Alexander I on his marriage with Anna.

Initially, the Church was divided by a wall into two parts: heated winter and summer, where worship services were held only in the warmer months.

Upon completion of the construction of the temple, the estate of Anna Orlova was purchased by the merchants of St. Petersburg Pedulum and Sergey Thunder. Now the fate of the Church fell on their shoulders. The brothers paid all necessary expenses and a portion of the salaries of the officers of the Church. The Church is not just repaired on donations. In 1833 appeared the new gate, repaired the porch and roof. In 1859 restored the altar and built a bell tower. In 1900 he built three furnaces in summer parts of the Church and now worship could go all year round. In 1914, the Church held the power. In 1934 was updated road leading to the temple.

During the great Patriotic war, the Church suffered greatly. In Soviet times there was no hurry to restore it, and as a result collapsed the roof and walls overgrown with bushes. In our time the Church decided to restore it, but the money was only enough for a wooden Church, which in 2006 was burned. The cause of the fire has not been determined.